Wireless T61 Problem

[Terry Polzin]

> > 
> > Stop the network service and see if NetworkManager then runs better on
> > its own....
> >   
> Not sure I understand what you mean, of course no network daemon, only
> a NetworkManager daemon.
> This thing is very strange, getting a ethernet connection is no
> problem at all but wireless has proven to
> be a bear.
> I must be missing something simple with wireless, this is the first
> time I have tried it on this machine.
Simply put, network is meant to turn on/off devices that are staticly
configured.  NetworkManager on the other hand is meant to turn on/off
devices that are dynamically configured.  Do turn off network via
chkconfig.