any plans to make wireless more user-friendly in Fedora 9?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 22 07:59:24 UTC 2007


Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:22:16PM +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> So my question is how can I (and other that can't code if they life
>>> depended on it) help you make wireless more user-friendly for novice
>>> users?
>> Have you seen NetworkManager?  In Fedora 7, it usually just works for
>> connecting to most kinds of wireless networks.  Unfortunately in
>> Fedora 8, the new NM 0.7 is missing support for some kinds of wireless
>> networks, and as such is a regression from Fedora 7 [1].
>>
>> [1]
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=336531
>>
> 
> I'm using Fedora 8 test 3 with latest updates and I don't see Network
> Manager running after default setup - maybe that is the only issue?

Note that the Live images do have Network Manager enabled by default 
which is the recommend thing to get if you are a desktop user.

Rahul




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