Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1606 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> John E. Perry wrote:
> > ...
> > Hm.  Reading through your dialog with the suse people, I see yours is
> > not the same problem I'm having.  Mine was discussed much earlier, and
> > had to do with the kde people deciding that users didn't want to see a
> > lot of extraneous AP's, so selected only a few to display.
> > ...
>
> John,
>
>     Have you looked at iwlist from the command line? While I haven't
> experienced not being able see wireless AP, I have found iwlist to be
> very thorough in its listing and much more useful for signal strength
> determination.

I was sure I'd tried iwlist without success.  But I just tried it, and
got 8 "cells" within range.

Thanks for making me feel silly, but helping me, James.  Now I won't
have to go to xp the next time I have to travel :-).

I'd still like to see KNetworkManager fixed, though.

jp
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