Re: Slight flame at NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

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