me too

[Jesse Haubrich]

I've had the same experiences...um, amen.


JKH



On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:08 -0700, solemneyed wrote:
> fwiw, I have endless problems with wireless configuration too.  I can
> save profiles (I use 'home' and 'work' also; home is unencrypted - I
> use MAC filtering instead - and work is WEP), but switching between
> them doesn't seem to 'take.'  I often have to switch the profile, then
> reboot ('cause I'm too l at m3 to figure out which daemon needs to be
> restarted), and then I'm able to connect.
> 
> Aside from this, I've also noticed that WEP seems to cause lots of
> connectivity problems, as does dhcp.  My laptop has integrated
> wireless, and quite often I can't get an IP for it, so I wind up
> sticking in a pcmcia wireless card.  This evidently sparks some potent
> juju, because I then wind up with both wireless interfaces configured,
> each with its own IP... :-P
> 
> s
> 
> On 5/4/05, Steve Kratz <stevek at derbyworks.com> wrote:
>         I have a Dell 5160 laptop with wireless card (b/g) in it
>         (Atheros
>         chipset - Shows as ath0).
>         
>         At work, the access point has no security. At home, I use WEP.
>         
>         It looks like the Network Settings panel >should< allow you to
>         set up 
>         multiple profiles for the network devices to make easy
>         switches between
>         the two networks. I've set up "Home" and "Work." The problem
>         is, the
>         settings don't seem to save. If I get "Work" all configured,
>         and then 
>         create "Home" and get it working, switching back to "Work"
>         results in a
>         completely unconfigured network settings page (as if you'd
>         just created
>         a new profile - wifi nor ethernet are configured or
>         activated.) 
>         
>         Any thoughts/ideas/better ways to do this?
>         
>         (I used to be a die-hard KDE fan, but am rather liking the
>         Ubuntu styled
>         Gnome... I'd like to try to make things work as they planned.)
>         
>         Steve
>         
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> 
> 
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