problem with NetworkManager

[psmith]

Craig White wrote:
> Wireless was working fine on F10 but when I updated to F11-Beta and then
> did a yum update which pretty much updated everything, my wired network
> is OK but wireless is not. I can't point the finger at NetworkManager on
> F11 because I am not all that familiar with how it's supposed to work
> because it just worked on F10 and before that, my previous laptop
> pre-dated NM.
>
> For some reason that I don't understand, the KDE Networking Widget in
> the status tray has 'Enable Wireless' dimmed ('Enable Networking' is of
> course checked).
>
> I cannot connect to my wireless LAN at all.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Craig
>
> I did some editing to ifcfg-wlan0 because for some reason, NM_CONTROLLED
> and USERCTL were set to no after the update.
>
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> # Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express
> Adapter
> DEVICE=wlan0
> HWADDR=00:23:4e:7e:61:bf
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> TYPE=Wireless
> ONBOOT=no
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=yes
> IPV6INIT=no
> NM_CONTROLLED=yes
> RATE=auto
> MODE=Auto
> ESSID=
> CHANNEL=
>
>
>
>   
i had a similar problem in F11 beta on my aspire one, it was caused by 
the acer_wmi module, try removing that if it's loaded and see if it 
makes a difference

phil