Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
In fact, for most mobile applications, NetworkManager is the better
tool anyway.
I've never been able to make it work with the broadcom radio in this
lappy. To me NM is terminally broken. YMMV of course.
I have an ipw2200 and an Orinoco and my M does indeed V. But from the
NM FAQ:
I'm using a Broadcom 4xxx-based card, but NetworkManager won't connect
to my wireless network. Why?
The Broadcom wireless drivers are under active development and have
come a long way, but are not quite as mature as others. It's a good
bet that bcm4xxx problems will be solved in furture kernel versions.
Until recently, this driver did not support the Shared Key WEP
authentication mode, still used by many access points. There are also
reported problems connecting to open networks.
A workaround might be to use the NDISWrapper driver instead of the the
bcm43xx driver included in the Linux kernel, at least until the kernel
driver version fixes these bugs.
So YMMV in the future as well, and I'd recommend you keep trying. It's
a nice tool when it works. Reports I've seen of success with
ndiswrapper have been mixed.
I am using ndiswrapper. Unforch, when the transition to the 2139
kernel was made, both the ndiswrapper stuff, and the ntfs stuff are now
massively out of synch on livna.
So I cannot advance to this newer kernel without losing both the
networking and my ability to mount the xp partition I left on the drive
when I installed FC5.
Yumex's error message when I attempt to install these:
Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is
not available.
Package kmod-ndiswrapper needs ndiswrapper-kmod-common = 1.13, this is
not available.
Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
Package kmod-ntfs needs ntfs-kmod-common = 2.1.26, this is not available.
Nuff said.
All the rest of the X11 related stuff available this evening is
installing now. Uneventfully.
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Cheers, Gene
