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Trouble using NetworkManager

I upgraded to 14.0 today and virtually everything worked like a charm. Awesome job there :-)!

My wireless works just fine too (settings are in rc.inet1 and wpa_supplicant.conf). However, I noticed that NetworkManager is now used by default and I would really like to try that (since I want to try using the VPN connections therein). The problem is - it looks like once the networkmanager is started, the network goes away! So, the resolved IP address at boot time (which happens before rc.networkmanager is called i think) somehow gets screwed up later and nothing works. Only way for me to make it work right now is I have stop networkmanager, re-enable wlan0 and use

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager stop

# ifconfig wlan0 up

# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

I have read articles about wicd and rc.inet1 having trouble when both have values (due to "power struggle"). Is something similar an issue with using networkmanager too? If so, how I can change my settings to be able to use NM? Note that currently my wifi settings are specified in wpa_supplicant.conf and rc.inet1.conf.

Please advice.

Try booting with the Slackware default, unconfigured rc.inet1.conf and then configuring your connections from within nm-applet.

I suggest maintaining your connection information for wpa_supplicant as you can use this from the command line. It does not cause any problems on my netbook.

That was the problem indeed!

In the process of debuggging the wifi (the problem was basically the bcm wifi drivers), I ended up adding stuff to rc.inet1.conf in an attempt to replicate my earlier settings with 13.37.

Thanks a lot! :-)