Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Wed Mar 12 23:35:48 UTC 2008
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:09 PM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>
> More success to report. NM does join me to 2 different WEP networks
> that it was never able to join before. Key appears to be turning off
> wpa_supplicant service. That is the only difference I tried this
> time.
>
Okay, I know some people still use WEP at home, but with wpa_supplicant
out, can you still connect to normal business networks?
> Spread the word. NM can work!
>
> PJ
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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