Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
f16 and gnome 3. I don't know what ver of Network Manager... Now I know a little bit about 802.11. I am currently at the IEEE 802 wireless interim meeting in Jacksonville, FL. Most of my time is in 802.15.9 (I am the chair), but I still attend 802.11 sessions. That is I know something

Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Dan Winship
On 01/17/2012 08:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, this is on a Lenovo x120e where I see the following in the log messages: Jan 16 22:16:42 lx120e kernel: [81433.007709] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin The driver for that chipset is apparently broken in the

Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/17/2012 08:38 AM, Dan Winship wrote: On 01/17/2012 08:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, this is on a Lenovo x120e where I see the following in the log messages: Jan 16 22:16:42 lx120e kernel: [81433.007709] rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin The driver for

Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: But it does not address the removal of information from the UI nor the control over SSID selection/control. Agreed. NM-client on F15 and now F16 is a perceptible downgrade over F14. The brave new world of Gnome 3 has

Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Larry Finger
On 01/17/2012 08:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/17/2012 08:38 AM, Dan Winship wrote: On 01/17/2012 08:14 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, this is on a Lenovo x120e where I see the following in the log messages: Jan 16 22:16:42 lx120e kernel: [81433.007709] rtl8192c_common: Loading

Re: Fedora16 - Brain dead wireless network manager

2012-01-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/17/2012 10:45 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: OTOH, reconnection to wlans seems to be faster than F15, which had some crazy long timeouts. Still slower than iOS, perhaps almost on par w Android devices. cheers, m 802.11ai is looking at how to streamline the whole setup process. You can