Netapplet

[Nadeem Bitar]

That probably explains why it doesn't work on one of my machines since I
am using ndiswrapper to load the windows driver for my Dell 1450 dual
band wireless card. But netapplet is working it detects all the
available networks but it doesn't look like it can detect the signal
strength accurately. 

Nadeem 

On 月, 2004-10-25 at 12:06 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> The applet should not be present when you only have a wired card in the
> computer.  However, it _should_ show when you have more than 1 device,
> or when you have _any_ wireless devices plugged in and in-use.  Other
> behaviors are likely bugs.
> 
> BTW, what's your onboard wireless card's driver and model?
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:00 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote:
> > I have noticed that the applet does come up on plugging in a wireless PC card,
> > however I dont see that behaviour for builtin wireless cards, though, IMHO,
> > they should work the same way. 
> > 
> > I am *hoping* that NetworkManager will be good enough soon to solve
> > these issues.
> > Its my single most desired RFE for linux. Going from office to home to
> > Starbucks,
> > I have to manually change settings and log out of X (because xauth does not
> > allow display to new hostname). 
> 
>