[Discuss] Questions

[Murray Strome]

Andrew Willard wrote:
> Steven Kurylo wrote:
>>>  I am a bit surprised that, unlike Windows, Ubuntu does not show
>>> all networks within range.
>>
>> My Ubuntu machine does show the networks in range.  The networkmanager
>> applet in the top right hand corner lists several.  When I click on it
>> it lists all the networks and then "Connect to other...", "Create
>> New....", and "Manual configuration".
>
> Even on a kubuntu box, as Murray asked about, it will show the same 
> thing... on the
> KDE Panel there will be a little 'strength bar' icon. If you click 
> your mouse
> pointer on this icon you will see a list of wired and wireless 
> devices. Under wireless
> you should see ALL wireless access points currently being detected by 
> your laptop.
> The application is called KNetworkManager if you have not already 
> installed it Murray.
OK, there is no networkmanager applet that I can see anywhere. According 
to ps -e, knetworkmanager is running. I tried killing it and restarting 
it by:

sudo knetworkmanager &

in a terminal.  Again, in the list generated by ps -e, it appears to be 
running.  Are there some parameters I am missing for it to work properly?

Murray