Re: nm and wireless

[igel <ich freak gmx net>]

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Hey Jirka and thanks for answering.

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.

I suspect that this is because I am not using gnome as a desktop
environment but E17?

thanks again for the attention!
- -igel
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