Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138043
hard laptop crash/freeze with NetworkManager
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:53 EST
- NetworkManager has to have the mode set to "Managed" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw. This conflicts with FC's insistence on making the mode "Auto" so that I can change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500). - unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my laptop. No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug this. Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say "can't connect to this network" (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I'm not root), my laptop freezes hard. Mouse doesn't respond, kernel doesn't respond, etc., etc. - IF I am root, then clicking NetworkManagerInfo's menu and selecting the SID of my network, I do get the next dialog asking me for my WEP key. HOWEVER, it does this EVERY time!! The WEP key does not get saved as it is supposed to in gconf. Argh!!!! I REALLY want this to work!! =:/ I am running the latest kernel from fc3 (kernel-2.6.9-1.649), and have installed the orinoco-0.15rc2 kernel modules so that iwlist scanning works. Help???
erm. Okay, I think #1 may not be an issue, perhaps. #2 is apparently a kernel/ipv6 issue, which I've confirmed by turning IPV6 off in /etc/ modprobe.conf and rebooting. I don't get the hard lockup anymore, yay!! #3, however, I still have a problem with.
Do more recent versions of NetworkManager & NetworkManager-gnome work for you for #3?
Yes, actually. =:) Yay!! =:) I'm running these: NetworkManager-0.3.3-1.cvs20050119.2.fc3 NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.3-1.cvs20050119.2.fc3 And the card asks me for the key, and it remembers it across reboots. Awesome job!!
Ok, closing.