[Cialug] Wireless Issues

[Terry A. Haimann]

I have laptop running FC10, where I use Wicd as my Wireless Network 
Manaager.  About 80% of the time when I go to a hotspot, it connects 
without any problems.  Of the 20% of the time when Wicd fails, it just 
comes up saying that it is waiting to be granted an ip address.
On most of those occasions, I am able to connect using a little program 
I wrote, which just issues the following commands:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan

The program takes the output from the scan and formats into a easily 
readable format and lets me chose which network to attach to and then 
issues the:

iwconfig wlan0 essid <network>

I then have to issue the "dhclient wlan0" command manually, since that 
isn't a program but is a BASH Script and I haven't been able to run 
scripts from within Lazarus/Free Pascal.

On some occasions, dhclient just times out and there is no way that I 
know of to connect.  I do notice that Windows users around me are 
connecting without any issues.

Now Wicd has the ability to use a couple of other programs to get the ip 
address, "dhcpcd" and "pump".  These programs are not in the  Fedora 
Repositories.  Should I hunt down the rpm's or even the source code and 
compile them or am I dealing with other issues?

Thx in advance,   Terry H.