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--- Comment #3 from Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>  2008-06-05 07:11:51 MDT ---
(In reply to comment #1 from Helmut Schaa)
> Ben, what do you mean exactly with 'not correctly'?

When connected to ethernet (eth0 on my machine) it should show the ethernet
icon
When connected to wireless (wlan0 on my machine) it should show a wireless
connection with signal strength
When not connected then it can show the green little globe (although something
more "Network" centric would be a good idea). 

> Will, I guess this is the issue you've told me yesterday.
>
> Did you ever visit a place with more then 20 broadcasting Networks in range?

No, but I do often visit places with wireless broadcasts that I don't know the
essid etc. It should show up in the list under NetworkManager, but it doesn't.
Only networks I define will show up, but how can I define something I don't
know about? 

So this requires a sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scanning (which most people
wouldn't know to do). 

> Therefore we decided to only show known networks which are in range. If you
> have multiple wireless connections defined every connection which is in range
> will be shown. If not that's a bug.

Yes, but how are you supposed to automagiclly know these wireless connections
in new places etc? 


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