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

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sun Oct 21 20:17:08 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 10:29 -0400, Chuck Anderson 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].

Hope to get those last bits fixed up tonight and push a new build for
testing that has options for all the types, including hidden networks.

Dan





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