Re: wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 19:41 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 gmail com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Dave Burns <tburns hawaii edu>
> wrote:
> >> Is there a canonical source to RTFM? Googling gets a million hits,
> no
> >> relevance so far.
> >>
> >> I am trying to connect to a WEP network. I left click on the
> >> NetworkManger icon upper right, select 'connect to other wireless
> >> network', it opens a dialog, I type in network name, select 128 bit
> >> wep and enter the key, hit connect. log contents after that:
> >> [root iprctmp1 mail]#  tail /var/log/messages [...]
> >>
> >
> > Hey, man, many of us have been there.
> >
> > Can I ask some basics?
> >
> > 1. Can you connect to ANY wireless networks, ones without WEP or
> other
> > encryption?
> 
> The WEP is the only network I have access to. 
Some questions. You d have NM on and network and wpa_supplicant off?
When you left click on nm-applet do you not see a list of available
APs ?
Is the ESSID for your WEP AP hidden?


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