[Techtalk] Gnome wireless manager?

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Wed Jan 24 17:31:56 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:17, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> Ar Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:12:47PM -0800, ysgrifennodd Carla Schroder:
> > > NetworkManager is your friend (you may need NetworkManager-gnome for
> > > the applet)
>
> ...
>
> > Apparently there is no timeout; I left it for an hour and it kept running
> > the whole time, hammering both hard drive and CPU. Why the hard drive?
> > Another Gnome mystery. I managed to whack-a-mole it until some actual
> > configuration windows appeared and then got it set up. Is it supposed to
> > be so elusive? This is on FC6.
>
> Local Fedora guru asks why it might be hammering the disc, because he
> doesn't think it should be. He is curious whether there is anything in
> dmesg or syslog about this. And says that perhaps its the hardware,
> (but he likes to blame the hardware).
>
> (Happy new year and all that, btw :))
>

Happy New Year to you too!

The hardware is fine. It was perfectly contented until I installed 
NetworkManager. I've already uninstalled it, but next time I test wireless 
stuff I'll pay extra attention and see if I can learn something more useful 
than "teh suck."  :)

Carla
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