Add Wireless to Laptop
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 14 13:30:08 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 17:00 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> [...]
>
> I tried it, and it didn't work. Here are some notes:
>
> 1. I had to edit NetwrokManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher because
> they had no levels specified. This suggests to me that there
> must be another procedure.
You mean you had to run chkconfig to set the on levels for these
scripts?
>
> 2. I set KDE to allow display of programs on the desktop, which
> I had previously blocked.
I is my understanding to get this to work in KDE you need to use
knetworkmanager. But I never done this since I use gnome.
>
> 3. I boot to level 3, and then type startx. It is my guess that
> this is not important. It is odd that I did not have to edit
> inittab after the installation; it installed that way. I don't
> remember selecting any option on this.
Why are you not booting to run level 5?
>
> 4. When I booted after your modifications, it came up with the
> wired connection active.
>
> 5. When I try to manually activate the wired the connection, I got:
>
> eys-eth1: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> keys-eth1: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> keys-eth1: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> keys-eth1: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 3c501 device eth1:1 does not seem to be present, delaying
> initialization.
Now 5, above seems crazy. There are wireless cards that don't work
directly in f7. You may be having that problem. But in KDE
knetworkmanager needs to be running.
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