On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 03:56:58 -0800 Russell Senior <[email protected]> dijo:
>>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> writes: > >John> Afterward I was able to enable wifi again via the GUI. But there >John> is still strangeness. The 'iw wlan0 scan' command found only one >John> network (a neighbor). It didn't even find my own network. A few >John> moments later I clicked on the panel icon for nm-applet, and it >John> listed my own network and half a dozen neighbors. It still >John> didn't show the Flashair, however. > >John> I went back to the command line and repeated the command. Again >John> it displayed only the one neighbor. But I have a clue: The one >John> neighbor is open, no security, where all the others are secured, >John> including my own and (presumably) the Flashair. 'Man iw' says >John> very little, and 'iw --help' says too much; way more than I can >John> understand. > >"iw wlan0 scan" should show you all networks, not just open ones, >however, scanning has a tradeoff between quick results and complete >results and you might not get complete results everytime, depending on >which beacons (or perhaps other traffic) were seen during the run >through the channels. > >It seems network manager shows you results cached from recent scans. >An "iw wlan0 scan" should update those cached values. If I keep repeating the command eventually it displays all the networks, including the Flashair. Once it displays the Flashair on the command line the Flashair also shows up in the nm-applet GUI. However, while I can connect to it with the GUI the nm-applet icon changes to rotating arrows while it fails to get in because the Flashair requires a password. At the moment the password is the default that it shipped with "12345678." The problem is that the nm-applet GUI does not offer me any way to enter the password. I just tried to connect to one of the neighbors and it did the same thing - the icon keeps spinning because it does not know the password, yet the GUI never pops up anything asking for the password. If I try to connect to my own wifi it connects immediately even though my network also requires a password. That is because I entered the password to connect to it a long time ago and it remembers the password. I could swear that when I did so it was because the nm-applet GUI popped up a window prompting me for the password, but it's been too long to remember for sure. In any event, there must be a config file somewhere that the nm-applet uses to retrieve passwords for various networks. If I right-click on the nm-applet icon I can select "Edit connections," which gives me a GUI showing all the available networks. But all the options are grayed out for all of them except the ones that are open and my own network. For my own network the Wifi Security tab allows me to enter or change password. If I run 'sudo nm-applet' the editing options are also all grayed out. I'm pretty sure I will be able to connect to the Flashair if I can just figure out how to tell network manager what the password is. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
