On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:20 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm an "old hand" at Linux, and am able to make my wired & wireless > connections work, but only with some difficulty. Yesterday I helped a > young lady install linux on a laptop and found it darned-near > impossible to explain to her how she is supposed to handle the problem > of going for place-to-place, using different wired and wireless > networks. So I wondered if the Gnome or KDE folks had worked this > out. The path they are taking is network-manager. I haven't tried it in FC5 - but in FC4 it worked for me to a point, but kept dropping my connection (I use madwifi). So I do it manually now. Hopefully as network-manager improves, that won't be necessary. I should try it in fc5 to see how well it works - maybe they have made it better. I like how moms Dell does it under Windows XP - first time she came to visit, I had to give her my info. Now - whenever she is here, it just figures out to use my network. She doesn't have to do anything. Just works.
