Wireless Lan at Runlevel 3/No Gui

[stevedavies]

I boot by default into Runlevel 3 on my F12 Server. If I need GUI apps then I run startx

The server I'm using (eeeBox eb1501) has a wired and a wireless LAN interfaces. I run two networks and want to be able to connect to the wirelss one without having to start Gnome or KDE just to get the WLAN to connect.

IS this someting to do with the NetworkManager or just the gnome-keyring?
The wired interface comes up at boot but the Wireless one won't until I start the GUI.

Any ideas?

Hello,
You could try "system-config-network-tui" or the command line tool for network manager "cnetworkmanage"

Hope this helps,

Ky

[stevedavies]

system-config-network-tui does not seem to handle wireless interfaces.
cnetworkmanage is not on my system

I don't want to have to run an application after every boot just to get the second I/F up.

Is this something to do with the keyring?

I found some good info here that might be useful : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager

[stevedavies]

I looked at that.
however, it does seem to assume that you are running some for of GDM.
Otherwise, why else would you edit /etc/pam.d.gdm ?

As I said in my original post, it does work if I fire up gnome and enter the keyring password.
I don't see why I should have to do that after every boot?
The system is configured to automatically reboot once a week. As it stands, it is broken (IMHO)

I remember reading something about how to do this that a admin. here wrote but I can't seem to find it and not sure who was the admin. that wrote it, but it was on a page with a address something like " roadrunner.comcomputer-jujitsu" or something like that.

If some one knows of the page I am thinking of please post a link.

[smr54]

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computer.../wireless.html

deals with removing network manager and discusses some command line wireless tools.

A more in-depth article--which though it deals with F7-F8 is still accurate--is at

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/fedora_wireless.html

(That article began when dealing with a bug in F7-F8, and was also talking about Intel cards, however, it goes through configuring wpa_supplicant.)

There may already be a way to have NetworkManager completely replace the network service in situations like yours, but I've never looked. I just disable NM and use network, which can handle both wired and wireless--with wireless, you will also want the wpa_supplicant service.

Noted and bookmarked, Thanks smr54

[e3eli3h]

Hi,

I was once in your shoes.
I've written a very quick guide to what works for me.

Hope it helps.