I'm running NetworkManager on my Thinkpad T60 (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG controller, iwl3945 driver) and it works fine under Fedora/KDE, but I find the user interface almost completely unintelligible.
If I left click on the NM icon in the panel a window comes up with WLAN Interface on the left, and Connections on the right. (Rather annoyingly, there is no X at the top right-hand corner to close the window, one has to click again on the icon.) A number of APs (4) are listed on the right, including the one I am using. On the left, the Traffic box shows a number of moving spikes, distributed unevenly but approximately one every 10 seconds. I take it these are beacons of some kind from the APs? If I click on the Manage Connections button at the bottom of the window and then choose Wireless, my present connection is listed, but it says Last Used: Never. which I find puzzling. If I highlight this entry, and click on Scan, I see rather a nice map showing the APs previously listed, presumably showing the stronger signals nearer to the centre. (What, if anything, does the location around the circle mean?) I find it odd that this graphic only appears after I have chosen a specific connection; I would have thought it would be more logical to offer it when the APs were listed earlier. Are others puzzled by the NM interface, or am I being obtuse? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
