NetworkManager

[joaoreis]

Hi everyone,

I have a rt2500 working with ndiswrapper, nm-applet (dhcbdb, rc.networkmanager, wpa_supplincat) loads right, it can detect near networks correctly, but when I try to connect to a simple WEP network, it seems to connect but no IP is given. If I set manually the IP, I can't ping the gateway either. If use via command line iwconfig (iwconfig wlan0 channel 8 mode managed essid "home_lan" key open s:secretkey) I can get IP by DHCP (using "dhcpcd wlan0") and it works just fine. I would like to know if there is any known issues regarding this situation, since I would like to use just NetworkManager to connect to wifi networks.

TIA,
Joao Reis.

[rhermsen]

Hi Joao,

I also have a rt2500. I'm on Slackware12.2, but currently without DLG.
I'm using the drivers part of the 2.6.27.31 kernel, but I'm not able to connect at all after installing 12.2.
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/vi ... f=5&t=6051
Are you using the the drivers part of the kernel or a legacy drivers?

When I was at Slackware12.1 with DLG I used I used the legacy driver and Rutilt, but it took some effort to get it working:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/vi ... f=3&t=4983 but after it was working it stayed working...until I installed 12.2. With Rutilt I was even able to connect to a WEP with a shared key.

You can also try using Wicd from extra on the Slackware CD. I only used it very short but it looks very promising.

[saxa]

People, I really hope that slack 13.1 gets released soon and we do a 2.30 dlg quickly, in that case
we will have Network Manager 0.8.x which seems that is a well reworked code.

Rgds