On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:03:35 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: > Michael D. Berger wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:33:16 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw >> wrote: [...] >>> >>> ACK! Hedwig is about 10 years old. History: RH 1,2,3,4,5 (where I >>> started using RH), 5.2,6 (Hedwig),7,7.1,7.2,7.3,8,9 (Shrike), >>> RHEL1?2?,RHEL 3,RHEL 4, RHEL 5, and just this year, RHEL 6. >>> >>> Something's wrong with your GUI options. Why not do it from the >>> command line? >> >> Is it just my GUI options, or is KDE 4 bad? Is any one else succeeding >> with CentOS 6 and KDE 4? > > No idea - never used the GUI, literally. The most I've every used that > was "GUI" (for small values of GUI), was system-config-network. >> >> I guess ifconfig and iwconfig are the commands to use. Right? > > Is this on a laptop, or are you hardwired? If the latter, you can just > edit /etc/sysconfig/network and > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, then restart the network. >> >> Also, in view of all the problems I am having, perhaps I should drop >> back to CentOS 5.6. What do you think? > > Don't see why, unless you absolutely don't want to deal with the network > other than through that GUI. > > Btw, if you close that "your system is not supported", you can go to the > rightmost tab and add a new profile. I'm *NOT* going to try that out on > my system here at work, but I'll wager that you can then edit the other > tabs. > > mark It is a laptop. I have not been able to get it to work on the command line. Perhaps it would help if I remove NetworkManager? Also, there is probably not enough in my ifcfg-wlan0. I can see what is my ifcfg-eth0, but what do I put if the network is unknown (I am traveling) or I am using DHCP? Do you have a reference I can read? Thanks, Mike.