On Tue, 22 May 2012, wes wrote: > rfkill list is not the scanning command I was referring to. I forget what > it was.
Wes, 'iwlist scanning' only works when the radio (and wlan0) is up. It returns a list of available access points with the relative signal strengh of each. On the Sony it's not now available. > the novel info is "there is a wireless interface for you to manage." in > other distros, this is done with something like a sysconfig or > system-config-network style of tool. I found this while googling related > to this issue. > I looked all the places I can think of. this issue appears to be specific > to the way Network Manager interacts with Slackware... I can only imagine > that enabling some sort of debug output or logging system within NM could > yield a clue. this is the path I would have gone next if we had more time. I'll ask more experienced slackers about this. Thanks for the pointers, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
