NetworkManager, Wireless and Fedora FC4

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On 6/17/05, Ray Hooker <ray.hooker at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the biggest pains with the Redhat line is the weak support for
> wireless (even a very old version of Knoppix automatically detects and
> sets up cards).  It appears that there is a new app to fix it:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager
> 
> I also see it referenced in Clemson's HOWTO:
> 
> http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml
> 
> I was excited.  I installed FC4 from scratch.  I noticed that
> NetworkManager was installed but NetworkManager and NetworkManager
> Dispatcher were not running.  Also noticed that FC4 seems to detect my
> Aironet PCI in my Thinkpad T42P.  Iwconfig shows it.  It even detected
> the SSID of my Linksys which temporarily had broadcast set to on.  The
> problem is that it does not have an address and there is no cool icon
> on the task bar in GNOME.  I did notice in KDE that there is a applet
> for Wireless network monitor.
> 
> **** I WANT TO DO THIS OUT OF BOX and not with hacks as this new tool
> is supposed to just "work".
> 
> So I started the two services (NetworkManager and NetworkManager
> Dispatcher).  I still see no applet on the task bar nor is it listed
> in the possible applets.  NetworkManager-Gnome as well as
> NetworkManager appears to already be installed.  I even did a YUM
> update (yum install...) just to make sure I had the latest and
> rebooted.  Still no taskbar icon.  The Clemson help page mentions
> nm-applet, but I can't seem to find the file, nor am I able to find
> "Startup Programs tab in the gnome-session-properties application" in
> the FC4 GNOME menus.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Again I want to make so that I use as
> much built in as possible and avoid other packages and hacks unless
> needed to support a particular card (e.g, Cisco or Intel Wireless such
> as IPW2200).. I did look and see that the Cisco ACU appears to be old
> and may not apply to this particular PCI card.  I am not sure the
> model as even WindowsXP does not indicate anything more than Aironet
> PCI.
> 
> Ray
> 
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