On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 16:45 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I spent a few hours trying to get NM working > with my classic Orinoco 802.11b Gold PCMCIA card, > on my Fedora-3 kernel-2.6.11 laptop. > > After wasting quite a lot of time, > I was told that NM could not work with this card and driver, > since they do not allow scanning, as shown by "iwlist eth0 scanning". > > (1) Don't you think you should warn people to test their cards > in this way _before_ going to the trouble > of installing NM, and trying to get it to work? > > (2) If iwlist can work out that the card will not work, > surely NM must know this, > so why does it not politely exit with a message to this effect?
Please go to the following link, download the RPMS (except the debuginfo RPM), and install them. http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/testing/ There have been quite a few changes this week to alleviate your problem, I'd be quite obliged if you would test them out and see what you think. Orinoco cards (and non-scanning cards in general) should work better now, albeit more manually. If people don't notice problems, I'll push it as an FC3 "testing" update. I also pinged upstream Orinoco driver maintainer to annoy him, once again (been doing it periodically since last fall), to merge the wireless scanning stuff from upstream. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
