Add Wireless to Laptop

[Aaron Konstam]

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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