On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 18:46 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I am just now setting up a laptop with Fedora 8 and I haven't the slightest > clue what I'm doing with the wireless networking. (It works fine with the wired > ethernet cable.) > > I have a brand new Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router and I have, for the moment, > done nothing at all to the wireless settings on it so I believe it should be > "wide open". > > When booting up, I get a "FAILED" message when initializing wlan0 > > When I go to System-Administration-Network and hit "activate" for wlan0, I get > this: "set failed on device wlan0 invalid argument" > > Again, I have no clue what I'm doing here -- I have never tried to set up a > wireless network before. > > So.... what do I do now? ---- I **believe** that in F8, you would want to install and use NetworkManager/NetworkManager Dispatcher instead of standard system-config-network as that has integrated control for wireless adaptors. Recognize though that Network Manager uses DHCP which I wouldn't expect to be an issue for you as I know you operate a dhcp server (from ltsp experience). Craig
