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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Troy,

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> For wireless, on SL5, I am finding that the NetworkManager works quite well. 
> It's much better than SL4.  It usually installed but not turned on.
>  /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
> and then you use the applet (either in gnome or kde)
>  nm-applet
>
> Two words of warning.
> I haven't had very good luck with NetworkManager when I am plugging in and 
> out a wired network cable.  It get's confused depending on the wired network 
> card.
> It also doesn't follow your configurations that you have in the files. It 
> seems to take those into consideration, but follows it's own rules.

It also needs to be restarted occasionally after resuming from suspend. 
But yes, it works great for me (ipw2200).

> We currently can't link to RedHat's documentation, but we are working on the 
> legalities of putting it on our website.  We  believe we can because of the 
> way they have licensed it.  Anyway, for now here is where the redhat 
> documentation is at.

Does anyone know how to build html pages from the documentation SRPMS? 
Using yelp and the XML files is a pain on smaller systems.

Cheers,
 	Stephan

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Stephan Wiesand
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