Re: Trying to get wireless card to work in FC6

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:13 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> 
> >> At one point I had ifconfig and iwconfig showing the correct ssid
> >> and key but it still did not associate!
> > 
> > Given this, I have one suggestion that would only take you a few minutes
> > to try. Download/install wifi-radar from extras, and give it a try. I've
> > had excellent success with that app, and it's amazingly easy to install.
> 
> I agree that wifi-radar is easy to install and use.
> 
> I cannot understand why Fedora does not base setting up WiFi
> on something like this.
> 
> Linux WiFi setup is unbelievably BAD,
> and Fedora manages to be worse that most other Linux distributions.
> 
> Whoever is responsible for the various WiFi configuration tools
> should be gently eased out of the job,
> and the author of wifi-radar asked to take the position.
> 
That just is not true. If you use NetworkManager and
NetworkManagerDaemon rather than network wireless just works.
nm-applet lets you choose from wireless connections and configure them.
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