Networkmanager conflict with drak

[sreejiraj]

I think it's high time we fixed the Networkmanager conflict with the built-in network configuration tool issue. I've reported this issue for Mageia 1 and I am sorry to see that it's still not fixed.

I just installed the Gnome Live CD (India version).

I usually connect through a Nokia HSPA phone.

Everything went fine and the system now runs cooler and all that. BUT, I can't tap into the network connection.

I mean:

It's got connected (using networkmanager) as it usually does. When I do ifconfig, it shows eth0, ppp and lo as up. However, when i try pinging, it says Network unreachable.

It's not a DNS issue. I tried to fix this by taking eth0 down. That didn't solve the problem.

It's properly connected, going by the ifconfig messages, but I can't get network connection for my applications.. or even to just ping. I think i pinged both as root and as a normal user.

Any ideas why network is not available?

Anyway congrats on the distribution -- works very neat.

[knightron]

I will confirm this problem. I connect to mobile broadband and have just installled networkmanager and it's gnome applet and i also suffer the same symptoms described. It will connect but any application that tries to use the connection will report no network connection.
I am not entirely sure it's the result of a conflict though. I have nw_applet configured to not auto start, and networkmanager still does the same thing.

[knightron]

Hi, i've been tinkering, and i've figured out the problem.It's not a conflict with drak. It's a conflict with the firewall. So all you need to do is configure the firewall a little (don't turn it off) and you can get it working.

[tandrews16]

Hmmm... I'm completely clueless about this stuff, but is it at all possible that the firewall could be the source of the problem some people are having with wireless connections? I had to disable the drakx tools in Mageia 2 and use network manager before my Realtec 8192CU device would connect at all reliably, but it worked fine with Mageia 1.