[Fedora-livecd-list] Networkmanager anomaly

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:36:36AM -0400, John Lucas wrote:
> I am experiencing a very strange anomaly with the Fedora 7 KDE Live CD on my
> Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop.
> NetworkManager works fine with the wired interface (Broadcom 440), and the
> Wifi connection works fine (Intel 3945) when I use WPA security (pre-shared
> key with Linksys 802.11g AP), but is does *not* work correctly when
> attempting to connect to a completely OPEN access point (DLink 802.11b AP
> with no encryption).
> 
> By circumventing NetworkManager I can connect to the OPEN AP just fine. When
> I revert to Fedora Core 6 (installed on HD) everything works fine (including
> NetworkManager with both WPA and OPEN AP). So the problem is experienced
> only when using Fedora 7 with NetworkManager associating with my OPEN AP.
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
> 

I haven't had this problem with the liveCD specifically, but I've
noticed something almost identical with NetworkManager on my fc6-based
laptop with an F7 kernel.  Because of the hacky nature of my setup I
haven't reported it to anyone yet....