Okay, I’ve wasted the last 3 hours trying to get this to work and am done with it. Here’s what I’ve found:

– NetworkManager has to have the mode set to “Managed” in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, from what I saw. This conflicts with FC’s insistence on making the mode “Auto” so that I can change the channel to 6 and the rate to Auto (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133500).

– unless I log into gnome as root, NetworkManagerInfo hard-locks-up my laptop. No, I cannot give a stack trace or anything useful to debug this. Specifically, what happens is I start NetworkManagerInfo, click on its menu, choose the SID of my network, and then sometimes immediately and sometimes after the error dialog box comes up to say “can’t connect to this network” (it does NOT ask me for a WEP key if I’m not root), my laptop freezes hard. Mouse doesn’t respond, kernel doesn’t respond, etc., etc.

– IF I am root, then clicking NetworkManagerInfo’s menu and selecting the SID of my network, I do get the next dialog asking me for my WEP key. HOWEVER, it does this EVERY time!! The WEP key does not get saved as it is supposed to in gconf.

Argh!!!!

I REALLY want this to work!! =:/

I am running the latest kernel from fc3 (kernel-2.6.9-1.649), and have
installed the orinoco-0.15rc2 kernel modules so that iwlist scanning
works.

Anyone? Help? Beuller?