wireless problem with network manager on fedora 7

it’s never worked for me, and doesn’t really work for a lot of people on the internets. i spend an hour trying to get it working. and i got solution that yields a reliable wireless connection now. yay. here’s how:

sudo yum install wifi-radar
sudo vi /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf # changed it from eth1 to wlan0
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop # because nm is lame and buggy
sudo wifi-radar

that’s it. connects to open and secured access points. got onto housemate’s wep and my own wpa2.

and no more of those annoying NetworkManager info messages that fill up /var/log/messages:

Jul  2 22:57:28 spork NetworkManager:   Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported

those are history. too bad, really, because i liked network manager’s gnome integration. but whatever, i have wireless network access again. i’ll live w/o nm-applet.