tyme Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 My friend just linked me to a sweet GNOME tool for networking...specifically users with wireless laptops, who move around to different wireless areas. It's called Network Manager. They have source available, you can break the lastest here (v0.6). Give it a try! I wish I had a laptop to test it on...but I'd be interested in others experience with it. It uses dbus and hal :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 I would love to test it out for you, but I get this error: checking for wireless-tools >= 28pre9... no configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional < root /home/omar/Download/NetworkManager-0.6.2 > rpm -qa | grep wireless wireless-tools-28-1.pre15.1mdk wireless-tools-debug-28-1.pre15.1mdk Trying to install a different wireless-tools from source gives me more errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 that's unfortunate :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Another unfortunate tester - same error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 If you want to test it, install e.g. FC5 on a spare partition. It has this tool included by default. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 If you want to test it, install e.g. FC5 on a spare partition. It has this tool included by default. :) Or any other distro not as hopelessly dated as mandriva ;) B) like Arch :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 'Hopelessly dated'? How about 'stable'? One would think that since this is a Mandriva help board, one would expect Mandriva users to be posting here. One would also expect that trying to assist a fellow Linux user would not be cause for another to ridicule one's choice of distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 'Hopelessly dated'? How about 'stable'? One would think that since this is a Mandriva help board, one would expect Mandriva users to be posting here. One would also expect that trying to assist a fellow Linux user would not be cause for another to ridicule one's choice of distro. Just ignore our "Archers", Steve. We both know that Mandriva is way better than many believe. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 this thread was started by an arch user.... that being said, linux is linux, and it doesn't matter what distro you use. if i want to come here and help mandriva users, i shouldn't be shut out just because i don't use mandriva. that's as mean as coming here and ridiculing mandriva. but, none of this matters, because users are allowed to post whatever they like as long as they don't violate guidelines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 I've noticed this tool with Red Hat too, just never used it. I've always removed it as I wanted a nice clean list of services without stuff I wasn't using. Might have to give it a go now, and check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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