On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:09 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:25:13PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:54 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm posting this message to no one in particular, in hopes that it > > > becomes part of the common lore... > > > > > I'm a little hurt. I read it as being specifically intended for me. :) > > I was trying not to pick on you! Believe me, you are not the first... > > > > After turning off the wpa_supplicant service, (making sure network is > > off too), and turning on NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher, > > and restarting, I found that after I ran the user program "nm-applet" > > , I could join some wireless networks today. > > Excellent news! > More success to report. NM does join me to 2 different WEP networks that it was never able to join before. Key appears to be turning off wpa_supplicant service. That is the only difference I tried this time. Spread the word. NM can work! PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
