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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