FC5 WiFi confusion

[Dan]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I thought FC4 was pretty bad at setting up WiFi,
> but FC5 seems even worse.
>
> Basically, I was only able to do it "by hand",
> writing out /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> and giving explicit route/ip commands to start WiFi working.
>
> 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.
-Dan