FC5 WiFi confusion

[Jon Nettleton]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 19:06 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:41:30 +0100
> Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> opined:
> > 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.
> > 
> The applet seems to now be gnome only.
> -- 
There is a KDE applet in the works.  Take a look at this thread about
discussions of where to host the code repo.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-March/msg00295.html

Jon