On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 13:36 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Craig White wrote:
>> > right click on this [NM] icon to get a list of options.
...
> Sorry, it was a standard (left) click
> System tray => WLAN interface (widget)
OK, now I'm left clicking on the icon.
I get a window with 2 halves, entitled Interfaces and Connections.
I'm connected at the moment.
The left half-window says
WLAN Interface Connected to wlan0
The right half-window says
Connections wlan0
and down the bottom
Show More Manage Connections
If I click Show More it just changes to Show Less but has no other effect.
If I click on Manage Connections I get the same window that I got
when right-clicking on the icon.
If I left-click on wlan0 the connection is broken for a second,
"Connected to wlan0" in the left half-window changes to
"Configuring interface", then "Setting network address"
and then "Connected to wlan0" again.
OK, this is fine; but I don't see any of the goodies you mention.
There is no option to scan for APs, nor is there a list of available APs
(as provided by "iwlist scan", which incidentally shows 2 APs,
including the one I am using)
More to the point, if I am not connected for some reason,
the two window-halves are empty,
and there is no action offered to me to correct the problem
as far as I can see.
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seems as if your manual configuration attempts are interfering with the
GUI since at the point where you left-click on wlan0, it should do the
equivalent to a iwlist scan command and list the available wireless
networks (whether AP's or Ad-Hoc) - at least it does for me.
Craig
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