[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Geoffrey]

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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