Some wireless questions.
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Mar 3 03:45:28 UTC 2006
akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 2. The answer to the first question relates to this question. When I am
> in my office there is a gaggle of access points available to me from my
> office. In the 2200 GUI in Windows I see them all and can pick one to
> connect to.
>
> In system-config-network I can't see these various points and the one it
> homes in on , does not do DHCP and no one claims it. In other words, it
> does not correspond to any access point known to people in the
> building that I can find.
>
> How can I get a behavior more like the Windows GUI?
>
> 3, At Trinity in order to connect to our University-wide access point
> we need to use LEAP protocol, and enter our Windows username and
> passwd. This works easily from Windows on my laptop. How do I pull
> this off in FC4?
I think NetworkManager (NM), which is part of the Fedora distribution,
is meant to do more or less what you ask.
Unfortunately I have been unable to get it to work with my Orinoco Gold card
but you may well be more fortunate.
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Timothy Murphy
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