nm-tool showing phony info?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jun 3 01:55:48 UTC 2010


On 06/02/2010 06:46 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I had never run across nm-tool until I saw it referred  on this list.
> I tried it and the line for my network was:
> 
>  *1600x160:       Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.437 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s,
> Strength 95%, Encrypted (WEP), Hidden
> 
> That's pretty strange because I originally configured the connection to
> use WPA2 with AES. Also the network isn't hidden. I just verified the
> settings on the router setup page (192.168.1.1 for a Linksys WRT54GL)
> and they are as I set it up originally. 
> 
> Anyone have an idea what's going on?

Don't know. I just used it when I found it on the wifi troubleshooting
page. Mine is showing correctly:

*.: Infra, [snipped], Freq 2437 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 100 WPA2

on a Netgear WGR614 v8







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