Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2333 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:

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> I have read that link and still think it's broken.  Right now, I'm in my 
> office and connected to our WiFi.  I know there are 9 or 10 other access 
> points in this building, but I can't see any other than ours in that 
> "New Connection".  If I wanted to change to another connection, how can 
> I do it, if I don't know the name?  As to having 20 access points 
> available, in Windows, you can scroll through the list.  Why can't that 
> be done here.  I can see what's available, by using iwlist (which also 
> requires using grep ESSID to get a plain list), but why can't 
> knetworkmanager do it?  That is a fundamental function that is missing. 
>  It should show *ALL* available networks, when you want to see them. It 
> should not be necessary to go to a command line and run iwlist, which is 
> impossible for someone to do, if they don't have root priviledges to run 
> it.

I had the opportunity to really test this yesterday in a location where 
I know there are 12 strong signals. I could only see 1 that I had 
knetworkmanager preconfigured for. So yes, this IS broken.....it worked 
in 10.3.

Fred

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