On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:52 +0100 Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sounds like system-config-network is using eth? while the wireless driver uses something different. > > Dell laptop I'm playing with uses wlan0 instead of eth0 for the wireless. Other wireless cards use other designations. See what you have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ It is, indeed, wlan0, and that's what I'm using. It refers to "wlan0" within the dialog boxes in system-config-network. > iwconfig from the command line in a terminal window will let you see the wireless setup and change some parameters. Getting the encryption keys just right between an F8 laptop and many routers seems to be a problem. Anything beyond 64bit WEP has me stumped so far. I set up F8 on a really snazzy Intel laptop the other day and had absolutely no problem getting the wireless networking to work just the way that I wanted it. There seems to be a big difference between wireless networking chipsets (antennas, whatever). I notice that the signal strength readout from Network Manager shows only three bars when this Dell is only about 15 feet away from my router. I could get about 50 feet away from it with the Intel before it dropped to three bars. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
