Question on NetworkManager

["Hello ;-)" <malachai 77 gmail com>]

Hello all,

I been trying to understand how NetworkManager work. Here are my status on my laptop.

 

Dell XPS M140 (Laptop)
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 750 (1.86GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
1GB Shared DDR2 SDRAM 2 Dimms
100GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
 

Running FC4

Kernel - 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4
NetworkManager ----NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.4
NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.4

I also have the most current drivers and firmware for my wireless card
ipw2200-firmware-2.4-7.at
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.1.0-40.rhfc4.at
ipw2200-1.1.0-40.rhfc4.at
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4-1.1.12-9.rhfc4.at

I did iwconfig and got this.
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 radio off ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=off
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:179 MisItsed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

I then did a ALT + F2 and type in NetworkManagerInfo

Right when I ran that I seen a icon appear on the top right hand corner it looks like a cord or something.. I have attach a picture of it. It's right next to the icon that is crossed out. Can you tell me what that is? When I right click on it I see "Wireless Enable" and it's checked.

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? From reading things around the board I should be seeing bars not a cord... one thing though I have my cat 5 cable plug in right now I don't know if that makes a difference. Once I disconnect the cat 5 cable it's gets crossed out.

Any kind of help would be nice or instrustion for FC4

[Malachai]

 

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