Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:09 PM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:25:13PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:54 AM, John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> wrote:
>>  > > I'm posting this message to no one in particular, in hopes that it
>>  > >  becomes part of the common lore...
>>  > >
>>  >  I'm a little hurt.  I read it as being specifically intended for me. :)
>>
>>  I was trying not to pick on you!  Believe me, you are not the first...
>>
>>
>>  > After turning off the wpa_supplicant service, (making sure network is
>>  > off too), and turning on NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher,
>>  > and restarting, I found that after I ran the user program "nm-applet"
>>  > , I could join some wireless networks today.
>>
>>  Excellent news!
>>
> 
> More success to report. NM does join me to 2 different WEP networks
> that it was never able to join before. Key appears to be turning off
> wpa_supplicant service.  That is the only difference I tried this
> time.
> 
Okay, I know some people still use WEP at home, but with wpa_supplicant 
out, can you still connect to normal business networks?

> Spread the word.  NM can work!
> 
> PJ


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