Re: any plans to make wireless more user-friendly in Fedora 9?

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Chuck Anderson <cra wpi edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:22:16PM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > So my question is how can I (and other that can't code if they life
> > > depended on it) help you make wireless more user-friendly for novice
> > > users?
> > Have you seen NetworkManager?  In Fedora 7, it usually just works for
> > connecting to most kinds of wireless networks.  Unfortunately in
> > Fedora 8, the new NM 0.7 is missing support for some kinds of wireless
> > networks, and as such is a regression from Fedora 7 [1].
> >
> > [1]
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=336531
>
> I'm using Fedora 8 test 3 with latest updates and I don't see Network
> Manager running after default setup - maybe that is the only issue?

Note that the Live images do have Network Manager enabled by default 
which is the recommend thing to get if you are a desktop user.

Rahul