[Discuss] Questions

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> 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
>
Have you installed kwallet??

John Blomfield
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