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

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