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--- Comment #4 from Helmut Schaa <hschaa@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-06-05 07:24:03 MDT 
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(In reply to comment #3 from Ben Kevan)
> 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). 

NetworkManager tries to maintain a connection for every device in the system in
parallel. Therefore it might happen that you have a wireless and a wired
connection at the same time. The default route should be on the wired device.

In which situation did KNM show the wrong icon?

> 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? 

Creating a new connection should show the list of available networks. They
simply do not show up in the context menu anymore.

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

Agreed. The user should never have to run iwlist.


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