Ted Markowitz wrote:
Mike McMullin said the following on 07/03/2008 12:08 PM:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:05 +0000, JP Rosevear wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:50 -0400, James Knott wrote:
I've noticed that the scanning in Knetworkmanager in OpenSUSE 11.0 doesn't work very well. Right now, as I sit at my desk, it only shows 4 networks and doesn't even show mine. On the other hand, my N800 shows 8 networks, including mine. I think this part should go back to the way it worked in 10.3, as that worked well.
You need to run iwlist for comparison to see if its NetworkManager or the driver messing up.
I've been following this thread, and I get one network showing in KNetWorkManager (11.0 on KDE3.5), my own, but iwlist shows the normal five (4 other plus my own).
My experience with the new KNetworkManager in 11.0 has been up and down as well. No nearby hotspots appear by default when the applet is clicked on initially. However, if you do "New connection..." > "wlan0", then they in fact are all there, but they then need to be configured manually. Apparently to have them appear as they did in the prior version (that is the signal strength monitor for each wlan0 connection is shown when you click on the applet in the panel) you need to actually configure a new wlan0 connection in KNetworkManager for each of the ones you want to have shown. Then it looks and works more-or-less like it used to. Also, the connection information (IP address, broadcast address, bytes transferred, etc.) seems to have disappeared; at least I can't see any command in the applet to show it. I've tried right-clicking on it, but that doesn't seem to make any difference and there's no extra info when you hover over the applet either. That was very useful information to have to show how your network was actually configured. Not that you can't see it all with ifconfig or iwlist I suppose, but still...
Not sure why the interface was changed. Personally I found the old one more intuitive and useful, but who am I to stand in the way of progress? ;-)
//ted
I agree. The old version was better in many ways. Also, while you can see available networks when adding a connection, it doesn't always show all of them. I'm considering going back to the KNM from 10.3 as the new version doesn't bring much new, but loses a lot. About the only improvement I can see, is the ability to configure multiple ethernet connections. That's a feature I could really use on my work computer, which unfortunately runs XP, as I'm always having to configure a static IP address, when I configure equipment. Changing addresses on Windows is a real pain, compared to how easy it is in Linux, even without Knetworkmanager. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org