Thanks, craig. I was hoping you'd weigh in on this and give us a good 
explanation. To me it was all a blur like a car accident, only after 
this everything worked better.

mike h

>----
>just a bit of oversight here - cuz I did see what worked.
>
>I have no clue why Mike didn't get it to work before - it should have
>been a piece of cake. It would have been a piece of cake if I hadn't for
>the fun of it, inserted an encryption key and turned on encryption when
>I bought the wireless AP and then promptly turned wireless off.
>
>When Mike came over, I turned the Wireless AP on and 'assumed' that
>encryption was off. Duh - after a little over an hour with nothing
>working at all, we realized that encryption was actually on.
>
>Anyway, dissecting Mike's message above - I guess his point was to leave
>a trail of how he solved problem but I didn't feel his above message was
>gonna get anyone closer to the solution...
>
>He say's - ditch kwifimanager - I say, who knows...It's just not a tool
>that interests me much.
>
>I had him run kudzu - a program apparently unique to redhat which probes
>for hardware either without entry in /etc/modprobe.conf and entries
>in /etc/modprobe.conf that aren't detected in hardware. Normally, kudzu
>runs at startup. For some reason, kudzu wasn't tossing up alerts about
>newly found hardware at startup when the card was inserted (kudzu
>running before pcmcia initialization?). Once booted, logged in and
>acquiring root shell, a manual run of kudzu located Netgear card,
>identified the module as orinoco_cs and assigned it to the next
>available ethernet device (in his case, eth1), and finally, wrote the
>entry into /etc/modprobe.conf
>
>Once properly located, the Gnome Network Manager allowed us to add a new
>profile which identified the eth1 as a wireless device, we set it to
>automatically locate the wireless channel (it selected the closest AP -
>mine) and bound it to the physical device (the Netgear #MA401).
>
>et voila
>
>Craig
>
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