On Tuesday 25 April 2006 08:33, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> 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. > >That's spelled NetworkManager, as in > > # chkconfig netowrk off > # chkconfig NetworkManager on > # service NetworkManager start > Which might be 100% fine, but you need to throw in that it might be fine IF you're NOT using ndiswrapper for a broadcom chipset. I tried that once and it destroyed wlan0. I was smart enough to have kept a backup copy though. As to the DriverLoader thingy, I'd expect similar results. Which leads me to ask, since there is a bcmwl5.ko module present in the 2096 modules tree, how far away is it from actually being useable? >In GNOME, that should be all that's needed, but if nothing happens, > you may also need to run nm-applet as the user. > >> 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. > >It's lots better now than in FC4, but there's still some room for >improvement. > >To some extent, how well it works depends on your wireless hardware. > Paul Johnson didn't specify in his post, but if he has trouble with > NM, he can report back for some help. > >> 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. > >That's NetworkManager's objective. It comes pretty close for many > users now. >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
