I'm not running Network Manager. I had various issues with NM so I disabled it. As I said nothing has changed in my configuration from when it worked to it now failing except for installing F11 updates. Also wireless works at home with my config, but doesn't work anywhere else. Paolo <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Aaron Konstam <<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:36 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > That's all fine and good, but why doesn't system-config-network work > as it has in the past? > > Paolo </div>Are you running network or NetworkManager. The latter is the way to go. <div><div></div><div class="h5">> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David García Granda > <<a href="mailto:dgranda@gmail.com">dgranda@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > It looks like you will enjoy NetworkManager: > <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Networking.html" target="_blank">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Networking.html</a> > > Regards, > > David > > 2009/11/21 Paolo Galtieri <<a href="mailto:pgaltieri@gmail.com">pgaltieri@gmail.com</a>>: > > > I have a laptop running F11 and I have been having strange > problems with > > wireless. > > > > At home I have a wireless network setup using WPA > authentication and I can > > connect to it without problems. Yesterday I was at the > airport which has a > > free public access wireless. I turned off wpa_supplicant, > configured the > > wireless network for auto everything except the ssid which > was set to the > > airport's wireless ssid. I started the network and ran > iwlist wlan0 scan to > > see what networks where available. About a dozen showed up, > only a few of > > which where the airport's wireless. Despite seeing available > wireless > > networks I never succeeded in connecting to any. I tried > specifying the > > channel number, nothing. I booted up my laptop on Windows > XP and it > > connected immediately. > > > > I arrived at my parents' house last night and tried to > connect to their > > wireless network. I had the exact same problem. In my > parents' case iwlist > > wlan0 scan showed only 1 network, theirs. I have been able > to connect to my > > parents' wireless fine previously. I booted up on Windows XP > and I connected > > immediately. This email is being sent from XP so I don't > have access to the > > logs, but what I saw from running wireshark and tailing the > messages file > > was that my laptop was sending out DHCP request and discover > messages, but I > > never saw any replies. > > > > Since I can connect with XP the problem is not the hardware, > does any one > > have any ideas as to what to try? Any thoughts are > appreciated. > > > > Is wireless support improved in F12 and would this be an > option? > > > > Thanks, > > Paolo > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > > To unsubscribe: > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > > Guidelines: > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > To unsubscribe: > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > Guidelines: > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> > </div></div>> -- <div class="im">> fedora-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> -- </div>======================================================================= Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Goethe <div class="im">======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: <a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a> -- </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>