KnetworkManager

[Peter Lewis]

On Monday 06 August 2007 23:28, James Tappin wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:00:14 +0200
> Søren Brønsted <soren at bronsted.dk> wrote:
>
> SB> On Sunday 05 August 2007 22:39:14 Jan Torben Heuer wrote:
> SB> > Søren Brønsted wrote:
> SB> > > After I did a Manual Configuraton on KnetworkManager it always
> SB> > > starts up in wired connected mode. I can not select any wrieless
> SB> > > networks anymore. How do I get my wireless networks back?
>
> Methinks there's a bug here.
>
> For me if there is nothing in /etc/network/interfaces then it scans and
> shows me the wireless networks that it finds. However it once I
> configure the interface (entering ESSID and WEP key) that is written to
> /etc/network/interfaces, whereafter it no-longer scans.

I second this behaviour. A blank /etc/network/interfaces file and a restart 
(though I'm sure an init script would do the same) fixes it until I enter any 
more manual config.

> It therefore seems to be at best a grave misfeature that reduces the
> usefulness of the tool to near zero. If anyone is of the opinion that
> I'm misinterpreting the function & purpose of knetworkmanager speak up
> or I'll post a bug report tomorrow.

Please do :-)

Pete.