David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
David Rosenstrauch schrieb:
I'll take a look, thanks.
That said, not sure why it would be working on one laptop but not the
other. Maybe there's an answer in one of those threads.
I was never able to scan as unprivileged user and I think you are not
supposed to be able to do it! I don't understand this fuss about it at
all.
The fuss is the resulting consequence that I mentioned in the 2nd part
of my email:
> What makes this even more annoying is that apparently some of the
wireless tools I'm using suffer from this restriction as well. So on
the old laptop, kwifimanager and knemo show accurate info about the
current connection (bit rate, link quality, etc.) while on the new
laptop these come up empty.
Those tools, which work great on one laptop, are pretty much useless on
the other one if they're not able to perform a scan.
DR
Looks like scanning is just a symptom. This appears to be more the crux
of the issue:
[darose@daroselin ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:213 Noise level:169
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
tun0 no wireless extensions.
[darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"<our ap name>" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
00:1B:2F:0C:BD:9E
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2506 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
tun0 no wireless extensions.
Not sure what's causing the discrepancy here. Something in my driver?
(Broadcom wl.) Have to look into this more ...
DR
