[Wylug-help] Madwifi and FC6

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 15:42:52 John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > No, I wasn't.  I knew I had read something about NetworkManager, but
> > couldn't remember anything about it.  I didn't even know whether it was
> > installed. However, the commands worked without a problem, but nm-applet
> > tells me that it can find no connection.  Probably I'd be as well leaving
> > this until tomorrow - unless you have any more ideas.  I'm going to CCL
> > tomorrow anyway, so I'll buy an antenna adapter/extended.  I seriously
> > doubt whether the short supplied antenna can actually get much of a
> > signal, so I need to lift it to line-of-sight.
>
> I guess it's promising that it thinks you have no connection rather than no
> wifi card if you see what I mean.
>
:-)

> > If you think I'm on the wrong track there, do say so, but this is a PCI
> > card, and the antenna barely clears the box case.
>
> As I said, I've only tried this route with two different intel chipset
> based laptops, so it could behave somewhat differently.  I've certainly
> found wpa_supplicant to be driver sensitive.
>
My only experience is with this laptop, an Intel wireless and Mandriva.  Piece 
of cake :-)

Anne