On Monday 03 of September 2012 20:05:47 igel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey Jirka and thanks for answering. > > On 09/03/2012 03:00 PM, Jirka Klimes wrote: > > On Monday 13 of August 2012 10:59:04 igel wrote: > >> I don't quite understand where it should show my wifi device - > >> The only place where it does show up is in the "Network > >> Connections" dialog, under "wireless" (I'll attach a snapshot > >> again) called "System (wlan0)". > >> > >> I do not have a "/var/log/NetworkManager.log", does nm use the > >> syslog facilities? Then it should show up in /var/log/messages > >> (my syslog-ng is configured to dump everything there); However, > >> a # grep wlan0 /var/log/messages revealed Aug 13 10:39:44 > >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]: SCPlugin-Ifnet: > >> wireless_setting added for wlan0 Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> NetworkManager[3797]: SCPlugin-Ifnet: Using dhcp method for > >> wlan0 Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: > >> SCPlugin-Ifnet: Connection verified wlan0:1 Aug 13 10:39:44 > >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): driver supports > >> SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device > >> (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 4) Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): exported as > >> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 Aug 13 10:39:44 > >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): now managed Aug > >> 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): > >> device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device. Aug 13 > >> 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): > >> deactivating device (reason: 2). Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> dhcpcd[2837]: wlan0: removing interface Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost > >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state: > >> down -> idle Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: > >> <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0) Aug 13 > >> 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): > >> supplicant interface state: starting -> ready > >> > >> So I take it nm is aware of my wifi device! > > > > Yes, according to the logs, NM is aware of your Wi-Fi device and > > you should be able to see available networks simply by > > left-clicking the nm-applet icon. > > I am aware that this is the behavior that I _should_ observe. However, > in practice I don't, that's why I wrote to the mailing list. I > attached a screenshot of how my nm-cli looks like when right clicked > to my orinigal email, and it can also be found in the bugreport I > opened at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682233 > > Here it also shows that "nmcli dev wifi" actually finds all wireless > networks in range, yet they are not in the right-click menu of nm. > As I wrote before, you have to click nm-applet icon with *left* mouse button to see the wireless networks. Right-click just shows menu you attached in your first screeenshot.
If you still have problems, it may be useful to look at ~/.xsession-errors where nm-applet should log. Or try to run nm-applet in a terminal and you would see possible errors in the terminal. > I suspect that this is because I am not using gnome as a desktop > environment but E17? > That shouldn't be a problem, nm-applet is supposed to run in E17 without a problem. > thanks again for the attention! > - -igel Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
