On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. FWIW, using plain wpa_supplicant works for me just fine on a 901, and with a little patching of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless, I can even use the usual ifup/ifdown commands with my wifi interface. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
