Wireless Woes

psmith psmith at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 21 11:16:41 UTC 2009


Seann Clark wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Seann Clark wrote:
>>  
>>> I apologize, I left that out by accident. How do you pull up the actual
>>> wireless network device?
>>>     
>>
>> Try using NetworkManager. You'll want NetworkManager-gnome for the 
>> GUI part
>> too (even if you aren't using GNOME - a KDE 4 Plasma applet is under
>> development, but at this point I can't really recommend it and we aren't
>> installing it by default); in its default configuration, NetworkManager
>> doesn't do all that much for wireless devices without a GUI.
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
>>
>>   
> I tried NM, and it configured everything else, I just can't get/find 
> the wireless card driver in the list, and it doesn't see the wireless 
> card even when the module is loaded.
>
>
> ~Seann
on what type of machine is this happening? and what type of wireless card?

phil




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