[ILUG] anyone around DIT can give a hand with a problem laptop?

[Michael Jonker]

I am not in Dublin - but you may add a few more details:

-Is he using a new router?
-Does he have trouble connecting to other access points outside of his 
own with Fedora?

It sounds like Fedora has been set to have a static IP address. If this 
is outside of the new routers range (most likely) you are going to get 
the symptoms described. You need to set the network manager settings to 
use DHCP.

On 20/04/2012 12:59, kae verens wrote:
> hi guys,
>    I've an in-law who I converted to Linux about a year ago. he's been using
> it happily since the, until recently, when he got UPC broadband installed.
>
> He's using Fedora 16. Clicking the network manager icon brings up the list
> of APs, including his UPC one, but clicking on the UPC name does nothing
> visually. It just fails silently. No error message, no request for a
> password.
>
> I walked him through how to check the logs, and there is activity going on
> as you would expect, but it's just not connecting. the only thing that
> stood out was a "<warn>  No agents were available for this request." message.
>
> His laptop works fine with his old broadband, which he can connect to at
> any time, the UPC broadband works fine with the laptop in Windows, yet he
> cannot connect in Linux, through either wifi, or ethernet.
>
> Is there a LUG presence in DIT that I can point him towards on Monday?
> Maybe showing the problem in person would help find the solution.
>
> kae