On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:36 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > That's all fine and good, but why doesn't system-config-network work > as it has in the past? > > Paolo Are you running network or NetworkManager. The latter is the way to go. > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David García Granda > <dgranda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > It looks like you will enjoy NetworkManager: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Networking.html > > Regards, > > David > > 2009/11/21 Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > I have a laptop running F11 and I have been having strange > problems with > > wireless. > > > > At home I have a wireless network setup using WPA > authentication and I can > > connect to it without problems. Yesterday I was at the > airport which has a > > free public access wireless. I turned off wpa_supplicant, > configured the > > wireless network for auto everything except the ssid which > was set to the > > airport's wireless ssid. I started the network and ran > iwlist wlan0 scan to > > see what networks where available. About a dozen showed up, > only a few of > > which where the airport's wireless. Despite seeing available > wireless > > networks I never succeeded in connecting to any. I tried > specifying the > > channel number, nothing. I booted up my laptop on Windows > XP and it > > connected immediately. > > > > I arrived at my parents' house last night and tried to > connect to their > > wireless network. I had the exact same problem. In my > parents' case iwlist > > wlan0 scan showed only 1 network, theirs. I have been able > to connect to my > > parents' wireless fine previously. I booted up on Windows XP > and I connected > > immediately. This email is being sent from XP so I don't > have access to the > > logs, but what I saw from running wireshark and tailing the > messages file > > was that my laptop was sending out DHCP request and discover > messages, but I > > never saw any replies. > > > > Since I can connect with XP the problem is not the hardware, > does any one > > have any ideas as to what to try? Any thoughts are > appreciated. > > > > Is wireless support improved in F12 and would this be an > option? > > > > Thanks, > > Paolo > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- ======================================================================= Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
