<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mary Ellen Foster</b> <<a href="mailto:mefoster@gmail.com">mefoster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 22/10/2007, Fulko Hew <<a href="mailto:fulko.hew@gmail.com">fulko.hew@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> a) when I start NetworkManager(Dispatcher) and KNetworkManager,<br>> KNetworkManager does not list my wired eth0, and does not list
<br>> any wireless networks.<br><br>Are you using knetworkmanager on Rawhide? As far as I know,<br>knetworkmanager doesn't work with the newest NetworkManager and you<br>should use nm-applet instead.</blockquote>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>Yes, I was trying to use knetworkmanager.<br><br>I tried nm-applet last week, and that didn't work for me,<br>so I gave up on it. But today... IT WORKS! :-)<br></div>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">So... as it stands:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
a) I appear to have wireless working now.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">b) use 'nm-applet', not 'knetworkmanager'</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">but...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
c) The wireless LED on the laptop no longer shows any network activity.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">d) Fn-F2 no longer disables (controls) wireless
</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">e) When I try to use Fn-F2, it is ignored, wireless continues to work,<br> and</span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
/var/log/messages complains with:<br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Oct 22 12:50:36 fulkol kernel: iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:</span>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Oct 22 12:50:36 fulkol kernel: Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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