On 26 Aug 14:27, Chris G wrote:
Yet again I am totally confused trying to get a WiFi connection to work. The real problem is that I don't really understand what the Network panel applet is supposed to do for me. Is there any good HowTo or similar for this applet?
It's a front end to Network Manager, which is the "shiny new" way of configuring interfaces... (I hates it and loves ifupdown, but never mind...).
The first question is what's it called? In order to try and find out anything about it by a Google search for example I need to know what I'm looking for. Ah, it does have an "About" entry, it's the NetworkManager applet, version 0.8. (Running on Xubuntu 10.04)
Firstly what's *supposed* to happen when/if there's a wireless network available? Do I need to do anything or should something appear in the applet?
*If* you have the right permissions, then it should pop up a box and say "look, there be a wireless network"! Not sure what the right perms are though, and I don't generally run it... :)
If nothing appears and I know (hope?) there's a network about can I do anything to make things happen?
Well, you could check that you're not being insane by going to a terminal and doing:
/sbin/iwlist <nameofwirelessinterface> scan
and see if that brings anything back... if it says that the interface wasn't available or some other such, then you might need to ifconfig the interface up first.
Cheers,