Craig White wrote:
right click on this [NM] icon to get a list of options.
I'm right clicking on the icon now.
It lists 3 items:
Network Management Settings
Panel Options
Remove this Network Management
One of them is likely
to offer to scan for available wireless networks. It also might list
available wireless networks and thus would allow you to choose to
connect to an available wireless network that you hadn't previously
indicated to connect to 'automatically' This isn't rocket science and
is similar to actions required to use wireless networking on a Macintosh
or Windows system.
Sorry, nothing like that appears on my Fedora-15/KDE system.
If I click on Network Management Settings
I get a window entitled Network Connections
which gives information on my current connection.
If I highlight this connection I get the basic data, SSID, MTU, etc.
As far as I can see, the only options I have are to change these,
which I don't need or want to.
> The only action I've found likely to work at this point is
re-booting.
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I suspect that you resort to rebooting because you have never checked
your options by right clicking the wireless icon in the system panel. If
it works for you... great.
As I have explained, right-clicking does not have the effects you describe.
What you say should happen is exactly what I would like to happen.
see my explanation above - the GUI way to run 'iwlist scan'
Unfortunately, the only way I have found to run "iwlist scan"
is "iwlist scan".
On the fly wireless configuration is entirely dependent upon
NetworkManager and the wireless 'widget' in the system tray should
provide all of the functionality you need. I don't know why you haven't
figured this out already
because it doesn't correspond to what I see on my laptop
or even gotten that info from whoever you
referred to as being knowledgeable but really... it's there, it works
well and should do everything you need. If not, you should file a bug
report.
The simplest explanation would seem to be that I am missing some package.
But I included all relevant groups when installing F-15.
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[tim@blanche ~]$ sudo grep -i net /var/log/yum.log
May 26 14:00:13 Installed: netpbm-10.47.26-2.fc15.i686
May 26 14:00:16 Installed: netpbm-progs-10.47.26-2.fc15.i686
May 28 11:37:55 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.999-3.git20110526.fc15.i686
May 28 11:37:58 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.999-3.git20110526.fc15.i686
Jun 03 14:23:02 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686
Jun 03 14:24:27 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-1.git20110531.fc15.i686
Jun 03 14:24:28 Updated: evolution-NetworkManager-3.0.2-1.fc15.i686
Jun 10 22:05:05 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.9997-2.git20110531.fc15.i686
Jun 10 22:05:07 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-2.git20110531.fc15.i686
Jun 10 22:05:43 Updated: evolution-NetworkManager-3.0.2-2.fc15.i686
Jun 16 23:27:28 Updated: net-tools-1.60-117.fc15.i686
Jun 17 23:54:11 Installed: libnet-1.1.5-2.fc15.i686
Jun 22 21:59:52 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-
networkmanagement-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
Jun 22 21:59:53 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
libs-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
Jun 22 22:01:33 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
openvpn-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
Jun 22 22:01:33 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
vpnc-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
Jun 22 22:01:33 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
pptp-0.9-0.47.20110323.fc15.1.i686
Jun 26 01:30:25 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.i686
Jun 26 01:31:01 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-4.git20110620.fc15.i686
Jul 01 12:20:32 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-
networkmanagement-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
Jul 01 12:20:34 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
libs-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
Jul 01 12:20:44 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
pptp-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
Jul 01 12:20:44 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
openvpn-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
Jul 01 12:20:45 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
vpnc-0.9-0.53.20110616git.nm09.fc15.i686
Jul 03 12:09:06 Updated: evolution-NetworkManager-3.0.2-3.fc15.i686
Jul 07 13:49:08 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.9997-5.git20110702.fc15.i686
Jul 07 13:49:10 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-5.git20110702.fc15.i686
Jul 19 12:12:24 Updated: 7:kdenetwork-libs-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686
Jul 19 12:13:16 Updated: 7:kdenetwork-4.6.5-1.fc15.i686
Jul 22 22:40:45 Updated: perl-Net-DNS-SEC-0.16-6.fc15.noarch
Jul 25 11:57:27 Updated: 1:telnet-0.17-51.fc15.i686
Aug 03 13:09:51 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
glib-0.8.9997-6.git20110721.fc15.i686
Aug 03 13:11:18 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.8.9997-6.git20110721.fc15.i686
Aug 03 13:11:41 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
vpnc-0.8.999-3.git20110721.fc15.i686
Aug 03 13:11:59 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
openvpn-0.8.9997-2.git20110721.fc15.i686
Aug 03 13:12:02 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-
pptp-0.8.999-2.git20110721.fc15.i686
Aug 10 01:45:29 Installed: perl-Net-FTP-AutoReconnect-0.3-3.fc15.noarch
Aug 10 01:45:30 Installed: perl-Net-FTP-RetrHandle-0.2-3.fc15.noarch
Aug 10 01:46:48 Updated: perl-NetPacket-1.2.0-1.fc15.noarch
Aug 10 09:59:08 Updated: perl-Net-SSLGlue-0.8-1.fc15.noarch
Aug 28 14:31:54 Updated: perl-Net-Amazon-0.60-1.fc15.noarch
Aug 28 14:32:23 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
libs-0.9-0.54.20110812git.nm09.fc15.i686
Aug 28 14:32:25 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-
networkmanagement-0.9-0.54.20110812git.nm09.fc15.i686
Aug 28 14:32:25 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
vpnc-0.9-0.54.20110812git.nm09.fc15.i686
Aug 28 14:32:26 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
pptp-0.9-0.54.20110812git.nm09.fc15.i686
Aug 28 14:32:26 Updated: 1:kde-plasma-networkmanagement-
openvpn-0.9-0.54.20110812git.nm09.fc15.i686
Sep 09 12:31:28 Updated: evolution-NetworkManager-3.0.3-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:34:19 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:35:03 Updated: perl-Net-Telnet-Cisco-1.10-7.fc15.noarch
Sep 16 11:35:20 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:36:07 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:36:10 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:36:13 Updated: NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:36:17 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.0-1.fc15.i686
Sep 16 11:36:26 Updated: netcf-libs-0.1.9-1.fc15.i686
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(I've deleted a large number of perl-Net-* packages,
as I assume these are not relevant.)
Is there something obvious I am missing?
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