network-manager

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2007-12-01 at 17:20 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 16:37 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> > So, unless you're a dhcp user, network-manager (at this point) isn't of
> > value.
> > I had to massage the dbus scripts just to get this to work at all.
> > So, the standard network tools in gnome work better than the manager at
> > this point.  Which leads me back to my original original question - how
> > t get my wireless (IPW2100) on my laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 to actually
> > connect to my Linksys 4400N router... It sees the network fine, just
> > won't connect to it.
> > 
> > Matt~
> > Thanks much for the python script.  I'm going to try this out for 2
> > reasons - 1) I'm learning python so this will be a nice sample working
> > script.  2) If I can get it to work on my laptop, I'll have a resolution
> > to my wireless problem
> Ok. I'm becoming convinced that ubuntu 6.06 with wireless setup as
> static IP just doesn't work.
> network-manager-gnome is useless unless you're setup for dhcp, the
> network admin sees the network but cannot connect, and (so far) no
> amount of tweaking network scripts or dbus scripts will allow this to
> work.  SO, the question is - has anyone gotten wireless networking
> (static IP) on Ubuntu Dapper to see the network and connect to it?

Hi John,

was offline the last couple of days, or would have replied sooner.

I'm no network guru, but have you tried just setting your network up
manually in /etc/network/interfaces?  I think this is quasi-deprecated
in ubuntu but is still the standard way of doing things on other
distrosm, like debian itself.  so try:

iface homestatic inet static
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1 [or whatever address your router takes by default]
address 192.168.2.200 [or whatever address you want to use]
wireless-essid NAME [insert name of your network]
wireless-key  s:ascii-key [insert the ascii version of your key --
though it'd be better to try with an open network first to rule out some
password issue]

in /etc/network/interfaces, and then try:

sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1=homestatic

that's assuming your wireless card is registered as eth1; it could also
be wlan1 or ra1 or maybe something else I haven't seen before.  You can
always check this with:

ifconfig.

If this works then your issue is probably directly related to
network-manager and the bug will be easier to triage.  

Oh, and make usre wireless-tools isstill installed -- it's possible
synaptic uninstalled it after you got rid of n-m.

\Matt

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