Fedora 8 on laptop lenovo T61P
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Thu Jan 10 13:09:07 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:43 +0100, Francois wrote:
> On mercredi 9 janvier 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
> > >> What kind of wireless card?
> > >>
> > >> Silly thing to check: Is the switch on the front lip of the case set
> > >> to "on"?
> > >
> > > It isn't silly, it's bitten me once and now i always check there first
> > > when someone says "my wireless isn't working?" , especially if they say
> > > it was working the day before. The BIOS is another place to check,
> > > sometimes the ethernet\wireless can be turned on or off there...
> >
> > I have had the wireless off, on my Acer, and refusing to be turned on
> > until I booted Windows.
> >
> > I suggest Francois uses google for combinations of Linux and Intel 4965;
> > I barely know one Intel Wireless card from another, but I have seen
> > quite a few questions about Intel Wireless.
>
> Finally, I have my wireless stuff that works. But it works, only if I run
> knetworkmanager. If I stop it, it doesn't work. The led that shows that the
> wifi function is running doesn't work, but I don't care.
>
> The pb I have is that knetworkmanager doesn't take care of the IP address I
> wrote in the ifcfg-wlan0 file. It takes an IP from my dhcp router, but my
> laptop has a fixed ip, It is configurated that way, it is not supposed to
> take an IP from my dhcp router.
>
> Another pb, is that I'm disconnected from the network after 8 or 10 minutes.
> I have to stop my connection from the icon on my desktop and to connect
> again to the wireless network. Something is broken somewhere. I didn't have
> such problems before running my old laptop and F7.
>
> The pb I reported about NFS not working was because of that. My system is
> configurated with fixed IP, but now, that knetworkmanager still wants not
> to take care of what is configurated, and take another ip address.
> Francois
You might want to take these issues to the
networkmanager-list at gnome.org.
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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