On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Vik Olliver <v...@olliver.family.gen.nz> wrote: > On 20/02/09 Roger Searle wrote: >> >> Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems >> getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 >> with gnome, network manager 0.6.6. Only changes have been any >> updates via apt-get update/upgrade. Connections are to 2 separate >> wrt54gl routers (home, work), set up essentially the same. I know >> they function OK based on other laptops connecting without issue. > > Same thing here, but not limited to GNOME. I have now had to revert to > GNOME completely because KDE4.2 is completely failing to bring up > network connections. GNOME is bad but can actually do it if I retry long > enough. I have 75% signal. My OLPC shows only 2 other wifi nodes nearby, > my Linux laptop does not see them as it is closer to ground level :) > > Vik :v)
This is IMHO the problem when operating system tasks (networking) are handed off to some desktop app.
