That's all fine and good, but why doesn't system-config-network work as it has in the past?
Paolo On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David García Granda <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > It looks like you will enjoy NetworkManager: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Networking.html > > Regards, > > David > > 2009/11/21 Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]>: > > I have a laptop running F11 and I have been having strange problems with > > wireless. > > > > At home I have a wireless network setup using WPA authentication and I > can > > connect to it without problems. Yesterday I was at the airport which has > a > > free public access wireless. I turned off wpa_supplicant, configured the > > wireless network for auto everything except the ssid which was set to the > > airport's wireless ssid. I started the network and ran iwlist wlan0 scan > to > > see what networks where available. About a dozen showed up, only a few > of > > which where the airport's wireless. Despite seeing available wireless > > networks I never succeeded in connecting to any. I tried specifying the > > channel number, nothing. I booted up my laptop on Windows XP and it > > connected immediately. > > > > I arrived at my parents' house last night and tried to connect to their > > wireless network. I had the exact same problem. In my parents' case > iwlist > > wlan0 scan showed only 1 network, theirs. I have been able to connect to > my > > parents' wireless fine previously. I booted up on Windows XP and I > connected > > immediately. This email is being sent from XP so I don't have access to > the > > logs, but what I saw from running wireshark and tailing the messages file > > was that my laptop was sending out DHCP request and discover messages, > but I > > never saw any replies. > > > > Since I can connect with XP the problem is not the hardware, does any one > > have any ideas as to what to try? Any thoughts are appreciated. > > > > Is wireless support improved in F12 and would this be an option? > > > > Thanks, > > Paolo > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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