FC5 WiFi confusion

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Tue Mar 28 05:59:50 UTC 2006


> On Monday 27 March 2006 01:41, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I agree with that 100%.
> Networkmanager doesn't allow me to connect with WPA-PSK so is useless for
> me.
> Madwifi broke after the FC5 upgrade (still need to figure out why, but
> have no
> time for it yet), so I have no wireless connection at this moment.
>
> I'm a KDE user as well so Gnome only applets are useless as well to me.
> Using WEP is no option as I don't control the AP.
>
> I'm back to using wires for the time being until I figure out what's
> happening
> with madwifi.
>
> regards,
> Marcel


Funny, i use NM with WPA-PSK with no problem. This was the 1st time in
fedora, where i did not have to fiddle around to get wpa-support running.
What does it say, if it doesn't allow you to connect via wpa?

Roger




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