Network Manager Problems

[Lawrence Graves]

On 05/03/2013 08:14 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 May 2013, Kevin Martin wrote:
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>> On 05/03/13 07:29, Lawrence Graves wrote:
>>
>> Lawrence,
>>
>> If you replaced the card and then it worked I'm not sure how you can 
>> then report that the problem was not the card.  Not only did
>> you replace the card but then you also installed Fedora 18, thereby 
>> eliminating any chance at that time of knowing if your problem
>> was hardware or software related.  Have you tried reinstalling F19 
>> Beta TC2 with the "working" card?  Did it work/not work if you
>> did?  I'm not saying that it's not NM that's the problem but you need 
>> to debug things one step at a time to determine that.
>>
>> Kevin
>
> It may not be the card, but the driver.  For some reason, I commonly 
> have wifi problems with new Fedora releases, particularly on a Toshiba 
> laptop I use -- I don't have the machine here and can't remember the 
> NIC, but I think it uses a realtek driver of some sort.  I make a 
> report to bugzilla, and it sits there for a couple of months.  
> Eventually I'll get an email saying "we upgraded the kernel -- did 
> that fix it?"  and it did.  I tend to run Mint in the meantime.
>
>
> billo
I agree with you, I believe it is the drivers too. I assumed it was the 
network manager because I am able to connect to my 2.4ghz wi-fi. Aren't 
the same drivers used to connect to 2.4ghz  the drivers  to connect to 5ghz.
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