NetworkManager connection to encrypted Wireless Network

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 14 November 2008 14:33:26 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2008 00:04:08 Scott Robbins wrote:
> > For what it's worth, on two KDE-centric distros, Mepis Beta (with KDE 3.
> > something ) and Mandriva 2009 with KDE 4, I had trouble.  In all cases,
> > I had to stop the various wpa and dhclient things being run and do it
> > manually.  In both cases, it would, according to iwconfig, connect, but
> > it wouldn't get an address, whether I manually configured it or tried
> > with DHCP.
>
> Surely that sounds like a problem with dhcp, not WiFi?

Can't be.  This laptop has Mandriva 2009 + KDE 4.  It connects using 
wpa_supplicant and gets its address by dhcp.

At one point it was suggested that it was a kde problem, but the gnome live cd 
has exactly the same problem.  This is purely a fedora problem.  As it has 
been for several releases.

Anne
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