On 05/26/2011 07:23 AM, Tim wrote:
> ;-) I tried to be amusing when naming the computers. One was named
> Pandora, after the mythological box that released evil to the world. I
> thought that was appropriate, since it was running Windows.
For reasons that I'm not going into, I name my computers
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Back when I did tech support, I used to tell people that they could
> name their email profile anything they wanted because the name was
> just window dressing; it was there for their convenience, but the
> program didn't care. One man named his
On 05/25/2011 06:53 PM, Tim wrote:
> I tell people to name theirs "george" or "fred" or something similarly
> easily identifiable, but not interesting to teenage hackers next door.
> It makes for amusing phone calls for help, "I need you to have a look at
> George, he's forgotten his password, agai
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 09:57 +0100, Tim Smith wrote:
> Maybe someone could try convincing linksys to randomise their default
> SSID, or include the BSSID in it, but I don't hold out much hope for
> that. It's always annoyed me. An identical SSID constitutes a promise
> that this is the same network
On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:57:24 +0100
Tim Smith wrote:
> That's worth a bugzilla entry. It won't connect to most Corporate WiFi
> networks in that case.
As I expected, a search turned up a bugzilla already created
for this case:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691139
I added to the co
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 19:52:32 -0400
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> > if I
> > right click the network icon and look at connections,
> > it shows a wireless connection, and even knows the
> > MAC address but it says it is Disconnected
>
> OK, I tried some stuff and found an answer: Apparently
> NM in f
On Tue, 24 May 2011 19:52:32 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> if I
> right click the network icon and look at connections,
> it shows a wireless connection, and even knows the
> MAC address but it says it is Disconnected
OK, I tried some stuff and found an answer: Apparently
NM in fedora won't talk to
Issue 1:
My wired network does indeed work OK in fedora 15. The
Options... button is no longer always disabled, so that problem
seems to be fixed since the beta, but when I was editing
the connection to turn on the always connected flag,
I get this tool tip when I hover over the "Save..."
button t
