Re: wireless problems under F11

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
>         >
>         >
>
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