wireless fc8 dell latitude d400

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Some questions. You d have NM on and network and wpa_supplicant off?
>
> Had a hard time turning wpa_s off. I'd stop it and init would
> immediately restart it. I had to stop NM, stop wpa_s, then could
> restart NM and wpa_s stayed off. Damn! I just tried connecting again
> and wpa_supplicant has come back to life!

Turn off the wpa SERVICE in system-config-services.  The NM will start
its own supplicant when it needs it.  Leave that alone.


Go to a coffee shop or other such place that has an open unencrypted
wireless.  They are cropping up all around here, don't you have some
there?

>
>> When you left click on nm-applet do you not see a list of available  APs ?
>
> I see 3 grayed out items ('wired network', 'auto ethernet', and
> 'wireless networks'), then vpn connections submenu,  'connect to other
> wireless network', and 'create new wireless network'. I've been using
> 'connect to other wireless network' to try to connect.
>
>> Is the ESSID for your WEP AP hidden?
>
> I guess. How can I tell?
>

Run "/sbin/iwlist scan" to see networks around you.


> Looks like I stumbled upon the answer to my original question about
> where to RTFM: http://fedoramobile.org/Members/MrHappy/getting-started
>
> After looking at that maybe my questions will become more intelligent.
>
> Dave
>



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