[PLUG] Sony Vaio Wireless Issue: Update

[Bill Barry]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Mike C. wrote:
>
> > => Rich, where is the static ip configuration on the Sony?
>
> Mike,
>
>   In NM via the nm-applet. That works.
>
> > My gut tells me the problem is the interaction between the slackware
> > network config/init scripts and the network management application. Be it
> > WICD or NM.
>
>    Your gut may be correct. I suspect the hardware because I've used WICD
> on
> a different Sony Vaio and two different Toshiba models. Also with different
> Slackware versions.
>
>   I'll go to ENU and buy a USB radio and see what that does; they might
> even
> let me try it out there first.
>
>
Have you tried booting this thing up with a livecd and connecting to an
access point?

Bill