[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

Fri Aug 8 01:05:18 UTC 2008
Mark Pryor <tlviewer at yahoo.com>



--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 2:24 PM
> Hi.  Thanks again for all your replies.
> 
> The CentOS 5.2 Live CD does include NetworkManager.
> 
> However the only choice in the Network Manager applet is
> "Wired Network".
> 

Using C5.1 and KDE, I use the kNetworkManager built from fc6.

#chkconfig NetworkManager on
#chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher on

#/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
(ditto for dispatch)

Anything that shows from
#iwlist scan

also shows in the knetworkmanager AP list.

-- 
Mark