I have had a terrible time with NetworkManager..... Johnny Hughes wrote: > Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >> Any suggestions on how to make this work under CentOS? I'd prefer to >> have CentOS on my laptop, to keep it the same OS as our servers. I >> don't want to learn two flavors of Linux... >> >> Thanks, >> -at > > It normally just works on most wireless cards (centos in general, not > necessarily the live CD). > > I will burn and boot the live CD on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and > see how NetworkManager works here and get back to you. > > What kind of laptop is it? I have pretty much given up on NetworkManager. I try it time to time after a clean boot, but most of the time, it will just NOT connect. I am an 'old had' at modifying /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, and I have simple scripts (for themost part) to run things. I have a script called wlan: ifconfig eth1 up /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -dd -K -D wext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf That works well with the Intel card in my HP nc2400. The ifcfg-eth1 is fairly simple: TYPE=Wireless DEVICE=eth1 HWADDR=00:1b:77:43:09:78 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK= DHCP_HOSTNAME=nc2400.htt-consult.com IPADDR= DOMAIN= ONBOOT=no USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=yes I do find that the BOOTPROTO=dhcp does not 'work' and I have to run dhclient eth1 to get a lease. If I get into a new area (did that a LOT these past couple weeks), I run /usr/sbin/wpa_cli and do a scan and scan_results to get the SSID, edit the wpa_supplicant.conf file, the a reconfigure within wpa_cli. All works; all manual. But I clean everything out and NetworkManager just does not seem to work for me.....