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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