Enabling wireless on Dell laptop

[Mark Knoop]

On 22/01/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/01/07, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> > > [root at localhost ~]# modprobe ipw3945
> > > [root at localhost ~]# ipw3945d
> >
> > no need to run those two by hand after a reboot
>
> I know, you'll see that I tryed iwconfig first beforehand.
>
> > That looks fine.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > The only thing left is to configure that new eth1 interface.
> > How you do that depends on what tools you want to use. As I said earlier,
> > I use Network Manager, so I'm not familiar with KWifiManager.
>
> I'm not too shy to use Network Manager. I looked into Network Manager,
> but it's a bit beyond me. Would you excuse my request of hand-holding
> and hint me in the right direction? Or, better yet, a tutorial. I've
> not googled anything aimed at the naive first timer.

NetworkManager *usually* doesn't need to be configured - just start it. As root:

service NetworkManager start

If it works, and you want it to start automatically,

chkconfig NetworkManager on
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Mark Knoop