Re: Network Manager patched on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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I'm actually able to connect to these now if I do "iwlist <dev> scan
essid <essid>" -- knetworkmanager wakes right up and connects to them.
Not sure if it was that way in Jaunty, as I don't know that I ever
attempted it.

Trey Nolen wrote:
> My big issue in Karmic is that I can't join "hidden" networks - even if
> I know the SSID and the passphrase.  This seems to be a regression from
> the earlier versions of Ubuntu.
> 
> I have seen reports of it on Launchpad, but so far the importance of the
> issue is "undetermined".  I think it is fairly critical myself, but I
> don't get to vote. :-)
> 
> 
> Trey Nolen
> 
> 
>>
>> I have another one for Karmic, and I can do that as well. I've noticed
>> that there does not seem to be any way to get it to pay any attention to
>> an Ad-Hoc network. When I'm in range, the network appears in the
>> knetworkmanager applet, but if I click on it, nothing happens (much the
>> same as a hidden network did in a case we'd discussed in the past). I'm
>> not sure what the debug info would say, but it should be interesting to
>> find out. It looks like absolutely nothing happens at all.
>>
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