John Summerfield <debian <at> herakles.homelinux.org> writes: > > I've just acquired a new (last years model) Sony VGN-SZ430N/B laptop. I > > installed Fedora 7 and initially everything worked fine - including the > > wireless. However when I'm at my current client's site (they have a WEP > > shared key wireless) I get the following behavior: > > > > 1) upon boot my wlan0 connects without issue. > > 2) as long as I work in my cube life is good > > 3) if I travel around the office at some point the wireless looses it's > > connection > Subsequent discussion here and on -test suggest strongly that, while > network manager works for a lot of people, it doesn't work at all for > anything but the most common case. I had wireless problems when trying to use NM with F7 and F8. I decided to circumvent my frustration by setting up my wireless in a way that avoids NM altogether (I use KDE also). My method is detailed in: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/fedora_wireless.html Maybe this will help ? Also I think that although in principle F8 and F7 are similar in terms of wireless behaviour I have had a few residual problems with F7 and none with F8 wireless (though initial workarounds to get F8 installed and tuning were required) - so moving to F8 may help but I would guess that abandonning any use of NM or knetworkmanager might be a good way forward. Mike
