Re: nm and wireless

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Monday 03 of September 2012 20:05:47 igel wrote:
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> Hey Jirka and thanks for answering.
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> On 09/03/2012 03:00 PM, Jirka Klimes wrote:
> > On Monday 13 of August 2012 10:59:04 igel wrote:
> >> I don't quite understand where it should show my wifi device -
> >> The only place where it does show up is in the "Network
> >> Connections" dialog, under "wireless" (I'll attach a snapshot
> >> again) called "System (wlan0)".
> >> 
> >> I do not have a "/var/log/NetworkManager.log", does nm use the
> >> syslog facilities? Then it should show up in /var/log/messages
> >> (my syslog-ng is configured to dump everything there); However,
> >> a # grep wlan0 /var/log/messages revealed Aug 13 10:39:44
> >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]:    SCPlugin-Ifnet:
> >> wireless_setting added for wlan0 Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> NetworkManager[3797]:    SCPlugin-Ifnet: Using dhcp method for
> >> wlan0 Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]:
> >> SCPlugin-Ifnet: Connection verified wlan0:1 Aug 13 10:39:44
> >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): driver supports
> >> SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01). Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device
> >> (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 4) Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): exported as
> >> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 Aug 13 10:39:44
> >> localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): now managed Aug
> >> 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0):
> >> device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2) Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device. Aug 13
> >> 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0):
> >> deactivating device (reason: 2). Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> dhcpcd[2837]: wlan0: removing interface Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost
> >> NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state:
> >> down -> idle Aug 13 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]:
> >> <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0) Aug 13
> >> 10:39:44 localhost NetworkManager[3797]: <info> (wlan0):
> >> supplicant interface state:  starting -> ready
> >> 
> >> So I take it nm is aware of my wifi device!
> > 
> > Yes, according to the logs, NM is aware of your Wi-Fi device and
> > you should be able to see available networks simply by
> > left-clicking the nm-applet icon.
> 
> I am aware that this is the behavior that I _should_ observe. However,
> in practice I don't, that's why I wrote to the mailing list. I
> attached a screenshot of how my nm-cli looks like when right clicked
> to my orinigal email, and it can also be found in the bugreport I
> opened at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682233
> 
> Here it also shows that "nmcli dev wifi" actually finds all wireless
> networks in range, yet they are not in the right-click menu of nm.
> 
As I wrote before, you have to click nm-applet icon with *left* mouse button 
to see the wireless networks.
Right-click just shows menu you attached in your first screeenshot.

If you still have problems, it may be useful to look at ~/.xsession-errors 
where nm-applet should log. Or try to run nm-applet in a terminal and you 
would see possible errors in the terminal.

> I suspect that this is because I am not using gnome as a desktop
> environment but E17?
> 
That shouldn't be a problem, nm-applet is supposed to run in E17 without a 
problem.

> thanks again for the attention!
> - -igel

Jirka