Problem setting up wired networking

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 14 November 2008 12:53:06 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have used Mandriva (2009 at present), Xandros and Linpus Lite on
> > roaming laptops, and every one of them manages wireless networks without
> > a problem.
>
> To be honest, NM works better for me under Fedora-10 than Fedora-9
> on a Thinkpad T43.
>
> But occasionally it does not work, and then I find the messages I read
> in /var/log/messages completely unintelligible and unhelpful.
> I've simply found as a matter of experiment
> that I have to re-boot the machine, and then it will probably work,
> with probability 0.8 .
>
> But I don't think computing should be a matter of
> experiment and probability.
>
> What I would like is a message along the following lines:
> "We connected to the AP, but your DHCP request was rejected", or
> "We are unable to initialize your WiFi card".
>
> Something, in other words, that might help me to correct the problem.
>
> Incidentally, Anne mentioned Xandros.
> I'm really embarrassed that my grand-daughter's EeePC 4G
> (ie the cheapest of the cheap) running Xandros
> connects faultlessly to WiFi wherever she is.
> I wonder what WiFi program that uses?
> (She is in Australia at the moment, so I cannot examine the machine.)

Mine is the original 701, and yes, it's wireless performance is impressive.  
It uses wpa_supplicant.

Anne
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