On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:37:12PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
John W. Linville wrote:
Please, as the first step in trying to get wireless working on Fedora,
before you do anything else, please just try:
service NetworkManager start
Please note that I said to try that _first_. Specifically, "first"
does not mean "after I ran system-config-network" or "after I started
wpa_supplicant" or even "after I tried to configure things manually".
"First" means _first_.
Why?
What difference does it make if you try NM first or second?
Obviously you aren't reading other threads...
Quite often someone will create a mess trying all the hard ways to
get wireless working before they try NetworkManager. Too often they
don't clean-up after their failed attempts, resulting in a nightmare
of conflicting wireless configuration options all trying to control
the wireless device at the same time.
Why create a mess trying the hard stuff, when you can at least try
the easy way first?
But if you did not know there was an easy way, what do you have to do
to get back to a clean slate?
I have NM working on my laptop but when I boot it does not start automatically.
I have to start it manually. It is enabled in chkconfig. Once it is running
the wireless works mostly. It sometimes drops the connection but telling NM
to reconnect gets the connection working again. The card is madwifi.
Personally, I just want a WiFi application that works.
I don't care what it is.
If you "don't care what it is", then you shouldn't object to my
suggestion of which to try first.
I'll use the first one I come across that works.
Fine...try NetworkManager first.
+1 NM has come a long way in F8. I used to have to configure my card by
hand. Now NM does it for me.
Regards,
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