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Automatic detection and configuration of WIFI connections?
- From: Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:17:20 -0700
- Message-id: <433EFCE0.2010306@xxxxxxxxx>
Is there a group of SUSE programmers focused on making WIFI connection
management work as well as Apple's OS/X? One thing OS/X does, that I
really like, is popup a dialog when I have lost my connection and new
hubs are detected.
I know that Linux has to contend with more hardware capability variations than Macs do. For example, some wireless hardware doesn't support scanning, some doesn't support WPA and/or WPA2, etc. Still, I tried to get Yast2 to configure a connection in an internet cafe the other day and it just would not configure the connection. I would get associated, but no DHCP server would be found. I guess it might have been a glitch in the cafe's connection, but there were other people connected around me.
In my case, I am running OpenSUSE 10.1 alpha1 on a Centrino-based laptop (ipw2200).
Thanks!
Miles
I know that Linux has to contend with more hardware capability variations than Macs do. For example, some wireless hardware doesn't support scanning, some doesn't support WPA and/or WPA2, etc. Still, I tried to get Yast2 to configure a connection in an internet cafe the other day and it just would not configure the connection. I would get associated, but no DHCP server would be found. I guess it might have been a glitch in the cafe's connection, but there were other people connected around me.
In my case, I am running OpenSUSE 10.1 alpha1 on a Centrino-based laptop (ipw2200).
Thanks!
Miles
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