Wifi won't connect with password

[Gordon Schulz]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at cinci.rr.com> wrote:

> Most of the time when I run "iwlist scan" I get "wlan0  No scan results" even 
> though I'm connected and can browse and email.  Sometimes it sees my router.  
> But it so far has never showed any of the neighbors' ESSIDs that I used to 
> see with Knetworkmanager.
> 
> Any idea why?
Only reason I can think of is that you do the 'iwlist scan' without
sudo/root privileges. Scanning as normal user only gives the left-over
scan results from prior scannings, so that would explain the
inconsistent behaviour. I'd assume (k)networkmanager does it's scanning
with at least temporary root privileges to see the SSIDs in range.
-- 
Gordon.