Geoffrey,<div><br></div><div>I don't know what desktop or version of Red Hat you're using, but RHEL 5 has a program called Network Manager, and an applet for the GNOME desktop called the network-manager-applet. You click it's little icon in the system tray, it pops up a radio button list of wireless networks or wired.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Greg Freemyer wrote:<br>
>> Now, wireless dhcp connectivity really sucks. I've never found a way to<br>
>> make it work without having to run the dhclient by hand. Now that sucks.<br>
><br>
> With OpenSUSE 11.1 wireless works fine for me (via the knetworkmanager<br>
> app) . But I understand I'm one of the lucky ones. One of the<br>
> devs said he is going to work heavily on knetworkmanager for the 11.2<br>
> release. So hopefully it should be in good shape by fall.<br>
><br>
> FYI: I think knetworkmanager is currently a kde3 app. Part of what is<br>
> needed is moving it to kde4 and apparently lots of bug fixing.<br>
><br>
> Greg<br>
<br>
</div>I just reconfigured my Mandriva laptop to use dhcp, configured my<br>
firewall to provide a specific IP based on the mac address of the<br>
laptop. Disconnected and reconnected via the gui and all is well. No<br>
messing with dhcp client from the command line like I had to with Red Hat.<br>
<br>
Yet another plus for Mandriva. I wish Red Hat was that easy.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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