Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Wed Mar 12 19:09:56 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:25:13PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:54 AM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'm posting this message to no one in particular, in hopes that it
> > becomes part of the common lore...
> >
> I'm a little hurt. I read it as being specifically intended for me. :)
I was trying not to pick on you! Believe me, you are not the first...
> After turning off the wpa_supplicant service, (making sure network is
> off too), and turning on NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher,
> and restarting, I found that after I ran the user program "nm-applet"
> , I could join some wireless networks today.
Excellent news!
> I'm driving around to some other places to try to find some other
> kinds of wireless routers. In my town, businesses are very friendly
> in offering free wireless access in their stores. Very pleasant
> compared to some European countries I've visited.
I guess you weren't in Kansas anymore... (sorry, couldn't resist...)
John
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