On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:02 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > How is it possible that iwconfig and NM applet show conflicting information ? > > In this case at least a 30% signal strength means that NM applet information > > is actually incorrect. > > Orinoco cards have problems. My orinoco card (and I've had the same > report from 2 other people) will refuse to associate with an AP when its > strength is low. However, it will report being connected to an AP when it > clearly cannot be. For example: I was playing with NetworkManagerInfo today on my Mac. I had to manually add the name of the network I wanted to connect to (because scanning w/Airport cards doesn't work), and afterward, I managed to completely hard lock my system, requiring a hard reboot I didn't get any appropriate debugging information either... This is FC3/ppc -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi