I have a Dell Inspiron 1545, which has a built-in wireless device--though I never used it until recently, being content to use a direct wired connection.
A week and a half ago, I took it overseas and there attempted to use a wireless hotspot at my hotel. But when I tried to use the Network Configuration and Network Device Control applets, nothing operated, nor could I find the network, even after typing in the SSID that the hotel receptionists provided. My fellow travelers were able to use the hotspot, but not I.
And I've noticed that with KDE, those two applets don't even have an option to activate or deactivate a network device. The regular Ethernet device says "inactive" though I know it's active, because I'm using it right now.
What did I do wrong during installation?
What can I do now to get wireless connectivity working? (Say if I want to try another local hotspot?)
What should I do when the next iteration of Fedora is released and it's time for me to upgrade?
Any help would be appreciated.
Temlakos
On 04/08/2011 12:58 PM, Temlakos wrote:
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545, which has a built-in wireless device--though I never used it until recently, being content to use a direct wired connection.
A week and a half ago, I took it overseas and there attempted to use a wireless hotspot at my hotel. But when I tried to use the Network Configuration and Network Device Control applets, nothing operated, nor could I find the network, even after typing in the SSID that the hotel receptionists provided. My fellow travelers were able to use the hotspot, but not I.
I've had to switch a couple of my users to using the gnome nm-applet because the KDE applet couldn't connect to wireless networks for some as yet unknown reason.
On 04/08/2011 03:31 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 04/08/2011 12:58 PM, Temlakos wrote:
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545, which has a built-in wireless device--though I never used it until recently, being content to use a direct wired connection.
A week and a half ago, I took it overseas and there attempted to use a wireless hotspot at my hotel. But when I tried to use the Network Configuration and Network Device Control applets, nothing operated, nor could I find the network, even after typing in the SSID that the hotel receptionists provided. My fellow travelers were able to use the hotspot, but not I.
I've had to switch a couple of my users to using the gnome nm-applet because the KDE applet couldn't connect to wireless networks for some as yet unknown reason.
All right, so it wasn't something that I couldn't understand.
How do I get this alternative network applet, and do you think that will get fixed with the next iteration?
Temlakos
On 04/08/2011 03:06 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 04/08/2011 03:31 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 04/08/2011 12:58 PM, Temlakos wrote:
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545, which has a built-in wireless device--though I never used it until recently, being content to use a direct wired connection.
A week and a half ago, I took it overseas and there attempted to use a wireless hotspot at my hotel. But when I tried to use the Network Configuration and Network Device Control applets, nothing operated, nor could I find the network, even after typing in the SSID that the hotel receptionists provided. My fellow travelers were able to use the hotspot, but not I.
I've had to switch a couple of my users to using the gnome nm-applet because the KDE applet couldn't connect to wireless networks for some as yet unknown reason.
All right, so it wasn't something that I couldn't understand.
How do I get this alternative network applet, and do you think that will get fixed with the next iteration?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE/Using_nm_applet_instead_of_knetworkmanager
-- Rex
On 04/08/2011 02:06 PM, Temlakos wrote:
On 04/08/2011 03:31 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
I've had to switch a couple of my users to using the gnome nm-applet because the KDE applet couldn't connect to wireless networks for some as yet unknown reason.
Although for at least one user it *appears* that the 4.6.1 update may have fixed things. Will know more later. For another, it appears that it did not. Unfortunately it is with their laptops on home/coffee shop networks so it is very hard for me to debug.
Orion Poplawski wrote:
Although for at least one user it *appears* that the 4.6.1 update may have fixed things. Will know more later. For another, it appears that it did not.
The update that fixed things was probably: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.4... which went stable in the same update push as 4.6.1.
Kevin Kofler
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