On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, John Pilkington <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/18/2011 01:24 PM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM, John Pilkington <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 12/14/2011 06:18 PM, John Robinson wrote: >> >> On 14/12/2011 17:42, John Pilkington wrote: >> >> My laptop has an iwl3945 , which it appears Intel no longer >> supports, >> >> >> I think they do, though http://intellinuxwireless.org/ does say >> there >> used to be a separate driver for the 3945 and there isn't any more. >> >> Cheers, >> >> John. >> >> Hmm; interesting. I got it from here: >> >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/_**_29/275<https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/__29/275> >> >> >> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/**29/275<https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/29/275> >> > >> >> which I thought looked authentic and reasonably current. Anyway, at >> present I seem to be able to detect networks but not connect. With >> the initial install I couldn't see them, but a Ubuntu 11.10 Live run >> picked one up, so it obviously wasn't a dead hardware issue. >> >> >> >> wicd works just fine for me on all of my notebooks, which also run rhel6. >> The main issues are some selinux denials, but nothing which could >> interfere with its functioning. >> Your problem should be the kernel module to control your hardware. >> >> Normally, if it does not work with Network Manager it will not work also >> with wicd ... >> wicd tends to be less verbose, and does not ask for any password at each >> login, as network manager does (sometimes). >> >> -- >> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti >> LCG - UFRJ >> > > Thanks, Paulo. I have now been able to connect through an unsecured > wireless network, but still don't get asked for a network password when > it's needed. Maybe I'm missing a crypto module of some sort; I'll look > around a bit more. > > > > If you are running Epel's you need to install: wicd-1.7.0-1.el6.x86_64 wicd-common-1.7.0-1.el6.noarch wicd-curses-1.7.0-1.el6.noarch wicd-gtk-1.7.0-1.el6.noarch Then you need to disabled NetworkManager, start wicd daemon, and get the wicd icon appear on your panel bar ... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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