Some wireless questions.

[Dan]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

>akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>2. The answer to the first question relates to this question. When I am
>>in my office there is a gaggle of access points available to me from my
>>office. In the  2200 GUI in Windows I see them all and can pick one to
>>connect to.
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>>In system-config-network I can't see these various points and the one it
>>homes in on , does not do DHCP and no one claims it. In other words, it
>>does not correspond to any access point known to people in the
>>building that I can find.
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>>How can I get a behavior more like the Windows GUI?
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>>3, At Trinity in order  to connect to our University-wide access point
>>we need to use LEAP protocol, and enter our Windows username and
>>passwd. This works easily from Windows on my laptop. How do I pull
>>this off in FC4?
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>I think NetworkManager (NM), which is part of the Fedora distribution,
>is meant to do more or less what you ask.
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>Unfortunately I have been unable to get it to work with my Orinoco Gold card
>but you may well be more fortunate.
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If you can get your card to work with network, NetworkManager will work 
fine, as it uses the same settings as a base.