wireless problems under F11
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 21 21:55:47 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:36 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> That's all fine and good, but why doesn't system-config-network work
> as it has in the past?
>
> Paolo
Are you running network or NetworkManager. The latter is the way to go.
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David García Granda
> <dgranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> It looks like you will enjoy NetworkManager:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Networking.html
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> 2009/11/21 Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com>:
>
> > I have a laptop running F11 and I have been having strange
> problems with
> > wireless.
> >
> > At home I have a wireless network setup using WPA
> authentication and I can
> > connect to it without problems. Yesterday I was at the
> airport which has a
> > free public access wireless. I turned off wpa_supplicant,
> configured the
> > wireless network for auto everything except the ssid which
> was set to the
> > airport's wireless ssid. I started the network and ran
> iwlist wlan0 scan to
> > see what networks where available. About a dozen showed up,
> only a few of
> > which where the airport's wireless. Despite seeing available
> wireless
> > networks I never succeeded in connecting to any. I tried
> specifying the
> > channel number, nothing. I booted up my laptop on Windows
> XP and it
> > connected immediately.
> >
> > I arrived at my parents' house last night and tried to
> connect to their
> > wireless network. I had the exact same problem. In my
> parents' case iwlist
> > wlan0 scan showed only 1 network, theirs. I have been able
> to connect to my
> > parents' wireless fine previously. I booted up on Windows XP
> and I connected
> > immediately. This email is being sent from XP so I don't
> have access to the
> > logs, but what I saw from running wireshark and tailing the
> messages file
> > was that my laptop was sending out DHCP request and discover
> messages, but I
> > never saw any replies.
> >
> > Since I can connect with XP the problem is not the hardware,
> does any one
> > have any ideas as to what to try? Any thoughts are
> appreciated.
> >
> > Is wireless support improved in F12 and would this be an
> option?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paolo
> >
> >
>
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