The next chapter in wireless problems: difference between Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10?

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:23 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> > NetworkManager in F9 and later has always Just Worked for me to
> > connect to damn near every base station I've come across. There
> > *might* be something amiss with the initial F9 version, not sure.
> > Current rawhide definitely works flawlessly though, on multiple
> > systems here, with multiple base stations, with different ranges of
> > speeds, encryption methods, etc.
> > 
> OK, I'll check from the base LiveCD to see if I've just messed
> something up...

I'd suggest perhaps even the F10 beta live cd, if the f9 one has
issues...

> > Also, the wifi card in use here could be relevant...
> > 
> 
> It's a built-in 802.11a/b/g card in my Acer laptop.  It identifies in
> Network Settings as Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG.

Yeah, that should definitely be working... Assuming the iwl3945-firmware
package is installed, that is -- its on the live CDs, but is it possible
your non-working install is missing it?

--jarod