Hi folks,
I have recently installed Fedora 8 on my sony vaio laptop which has intel pro wireless 3945 ABG wireless inbuilt card.
I Was glad that support for this card is provided in fedora out of the box w/o the need to download and install anything from internet.
But i did notice that, unlike previous versions the wireless card is shown as wlano instead of eth1..!
Anyways...coming to the problem.
I have a wireless dlink G router at homw thru which i connect to internet.
We also have another wireless access point in our apartment complex provided by the management, but those APs are 802.11b routers.

When i go to network manager, and change the settings of wireless cards as follows:
mode: Managed
essid: airimba

"This is the apartment complex essid"

it works automatically by getting the ip via dhcp

but when i do the same thing for my home 802.11 g router
mode: Managed
essid: dlink

it doesnt work? i mean, its not getting ip via dhcp?!!

I never had such problem either in windows vista or ubuntu 7.10 before?

any help is greatly appreciated.

P.S: I tried disabling the WEP key on my AP, but still the problem exists

wlan0 presumably, the name change reflects that the card is handled differently to normal (wired) ethernet. But that's nothing, you should see what happens when you use Xen!

Right - works for the apartment dhcp but not for your router... follows that the problem is on the router - though double-check, try using the network at Starbucks, a university, or an airport. Check the essid is really dlink and not DLINK or Dlink or something. Check the router configuration - is it expecting authentication?