FC5 WiFi confusion

[Dan]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
>   
>>> I gathered from the documentation that FC5 relies on NetworkManager,
>>> but this did not appear to be running after installation.
>>> In my case, when I chkconfig-ed NetworkManager on, and re-booted,
>>> I was not connected to my dhcp LAN,
>>> and no NM applet appeared in my KDE panel as I had expected.
>>>
>>> The whole WiFi setup is a bit of a mess, in my experience.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Turn on NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher services.
>>     
>
> That is precisely what I did, and it did not work.
> I was not connected to my LAN,
> and no applet appeared in my KDE panel.
>
> I'm sorry, but NetworkManager at the moment is simply not up to the job
> that has been given to it in FC5.
> Hopefully it will be in the future.
>
>   
Oh, you're using KDE. The applet is in the package NetworkManager-gnome, 
so obviously this doesn't work for KDE; I'd look into what Jon referred 
you to.
[grinnz at bookdt43p ~]$ rpm -ql NetworkManager-gnome
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf
/usr/bin/nm-applet
/usr/bin/nm-vpn-properties
...