Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Wed Mar 12 15:51:40 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:37:12PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
>
> > Please, as the first step in trying to get wireless working on Fedora,
> > before you do anything else, please just try:
> >
> > service NetworkManager start
> >
> > Please note that I said to try that _first_. Specifically, "first"
> > does not mean "after I ran system-config-network" or "after I started
> > wpa_supplicant" or even "after I tried to configure things manually".
> > "First" means _first_.
>
> Why?
> What difference does it make if you try NM first or second?
Obviously you aren't reading other threads...
Quite often someone will create a mess trying all the hard ways to
get wireless working before they try NetworkManager. Too often they
don't clean-up after their failed attempts, resulting in a nightmare
of conflicting wireless configuration options all trying to control
the wireless device at the same time.
Why create a mess trying the hard stuff, when you can at least try
the easy way first?
> Personally, I just want a WiFi application that works.
> I don't care what it is.
If you "don't care what it is", then you shouldn't object to my
suggestion of which to try first.
> I'll use the first one I come across that works.
Fine...try NetworkManager first.
John
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