Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:09:37PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:

> > FWIW, the most likely culprits are running the wpa_supplicant service
> > (i.e. "service wpa_supplicant start" or "chkconfig wpa_supplicant
> > on") and/or not specifying "ONBOOT=no" for wireless devices when
> > using system-config-network.
> 
> Surely the rational advice in such a case should be something like,
> "Make sure you are not running the wpa_supplicant service",
> with a brief account of how you can tell ("chkconfig --list").

Clearly you missed the entire point of the original post.  Let me
spell it out for you:

IF YOU NEED WIRELESS AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TRY, THEN TRY
NetworkManager FIRST.

I'm sorry I offended you by trying to make things easier for people.
Apparently the Spirit of Linux demands that I explore every option
and explain every detail whether or not most people care.  I'll try
to do better.

John
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John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com