On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:24 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:53:22AM -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > >What I do for wireless networking is a kludge of the first water. > > > > > >I use "service network restart" for my home network. It is set up with > > >WEP using 64 bit (10 hex digit) keys and does not broadcast its > > >SSID. I cannot access my home network with NetworkManager (hereafter > > >NM). However, I can use NM to get on a local open network. So I find > > >myself toggling between those two tools. > > > > What do you have for a wirless card? I don't have a problem accessing the > > hidden SSID at work (unless some student is in range with an ad-hoc > > network with the same SSID). > > Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) > > It works just fine once it's set up, and both kwifimanager and kismet > detect the network. > > This on a Lenovo R51. See: http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html > I have the same card and NM works well to access wifi at home and at work. With the use of nm-applet the available access points are detected and can be accessed. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
