[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[scott mcbrien]

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.

-Scott

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Geoffrey <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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