Enabling wireless on Dell laptop

[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/01/07, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> > [root at localhost ~]# modprobe ipw3945
> > [root at localhost ~]# ipw3945d
>
> no need to run those two by hand after a reboot

I know, you'll see that I tryed iwconfig first beforehand.

> That looks fine.

Excellent.

> The only thing left is to configure that new eth1 interface.
> How you do that depends on what tools you want to use. As I said earlier,
> I use Network Manager, so I'm not familiar with KWifiManager.

I'm not too shy to use Network Manager. I looked into Network Manager,
but it's a bit beyond me. Would you excuse my request of hand-holding
and hint me in the right direction? Or, better yet, a tutorial. I've
not googled anything aimed at the naive first timer.

Dotan Cohen

http://dotancohen.com/photoalbum/images/index.htm
http://liriks-song.com