wireless problems under F11

[Paolo Galtieri]

That's all fine and good, but why doesn't system-config-network work as it
has in the past?

Paolo

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David García Granda <dgranda at gmail.com>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 at gmail.com>:
> > 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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