elements of the Desktop guide

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:21 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Wouldn't it be worthwhile for the steering committee to (actively) ask
> this guy 
> 
> http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Setup_your_wireless_client_at_home
> 
> to make it part of the desktop guide (perhaps as a shorter "technical
> note" as I proposed some days ago). Wireless networking is a often
> discussed problem. Maybe someone should add a chapter about handling
> cards which are not enclosed in the distribution.

This is a good article, unfortunately licensed through CC BY-NC-SA, but
perhaps the author will dual-license it.  You don't need the steering
committee to do this, though; feel free to write the gentleman in
question and ask whether he would license a copy under the FDL so we
could include it.

What I wonder on a technical level, though, is why more people aren't
encouraging the use of NetworkManager, which is a truly great new system
for managing connections.  I don't turn any of my interfaces on at boot
time, which means booting is really quite fast when I'm on wireless.
When I move my box around the network configuration changes on the fly,
whether I plug it in or unplug it.

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE                          http://paul.frields.org/
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