Someone handed me a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop to set up with Fedora 8. (Not my choice of laptop, but what can you do?) Anyway, after much fiddling around I finally got the machine to recognize that it has a wireless card. (It's a BCM94311MCG, apparently). Now I'm stuck actually getting it online. I started Network Manager. If I delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings/* and log in, I get a window telling me "Passwords or encryption keys are required to access melvilletheatre.net". Therefore, it can obviously find my wireless network. I enter the password to access my network and hit "connect". I get asked for a new default keyring password so I enter my user login password. Immediately after hitting OK, I get this message box up from the Network Manager applet in the toolbar: "The network connection has been disconnected." If I click on the applet, it shows "melvilletheatre.net" as an available option. I click on that and the little spinning doodad starts up. First the bottom light on the applet turns green, then after two or three seconds the top light turns green. After about a minute, I get the message box "The network connection has been disconnected". I double-checked the password that I'm using and it is indeed correct. And I have tried this entire procedure several times with the same result. So... what's going on? It appears that the machine can see my network but can't actually talk to it. I also tried setting this up directly with system-config-network instead of Network Manager. I keep getting told "Check cable?" no matter what options I try. I checked the log on my dhcp server and it records no requests from the laptop's mac address. I don't really know where to go from here... -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
