[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[scott mcbrien]

Geoffrey,
I see your problem.  To get the best desktop experience from RH, you really
do need to use GNOME.  It could be that they've added network-manager-applet
to also work in KDE, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was GNOME only.
 Also, if you're not using any kind of interactive app, and your network is
WPA encrypted, that could be a problem.  The network-script file for your
interface supports WEP encryption being specified with the KEY setting, but
I don't know the wpa-supplicant magic for sending the authentication
password data via a script or commandline.

If your wireless network is encrypted and you're not providing any
authentication information, that would also explain the issue.  I've seen
this behavior before when I've forgotten to put the WEP key in my
network-script or if it's been changed on the access point and I've not
updated my settings.

-Scott

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> scott mcbrien wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > 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.
>
> Red Hat EL client 5.3.  I use the network manager.  I don't do GNOME.
> If I configure it to use dhcp for wireless, I never get a connection, it
> simply times out.
>
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com
> > <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >      >> Now, wireless dhcp connectivity really sucks.  I've never found
> >     a way to
> >      >> make it work without having to run the dhclient by hand.  Now
> >     that sucks.
> >      >
> >      > With OpenSUSE 11.1 wireless works fine for me (via the
> >     knetworkmanager
> >      > app)  .    But I understand I'm one of the lucky ones.  One of the
> >      > devs said he is going to work heavily on knetworkmanager for the
> 11.2
> >      > release.  So hopefully it should be in good shape by fall.
> >      >
> >      > FYI: I think knetworkmanager is currently a kde3 app.  Part of
> >     what is
> >      > needed is moving it to kde4 and apparently lots of bug fixing.
> >      >
> >      > Greg
> >
> >     I just reconfigured my Mandriva laptop to use dhcp, configured my
> >     firewall to provide a specific IP based on the mac address of the
> >     laptop.  Disconnected and reconnected via the gui and all is well.
>  No
> >     messing with dhcp client from the command line like I had to with
> >     Red Hat.
> >
> >     Yet another plus for Mandriva.  I wish Red Hat was that easy.
> >
> >     --
> >     Until later, Geoffrey
>
>
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