Ubuntu
gnome-nettool package

Wireless Network Access Points NOT Listed

Bug #69587 reported by George Calm on 2006-10-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #59159: network-admin doesn't scan for networks [regression]. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-nettool (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

In the Wireless connection -> Properties:
Clicking on the "Network name (ESSID):" drop-down box does not give the list of Access Points and Ad-Hoc cells in range.

Looking for the WIFI manually via "iwlist ath0 scan" gives me a long list of Wireless Networks in range.

This began to happen as I upgraded to EdgyEft 6.10, while on 6.06 this tool worked fine.

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Abraham Elias (abe-driven2empower) wrote on 2006-11-09:

I can confirm... The drop down does not list and Access Points. Running "iwlist eth1 scan" does return a list of available access points. running 6.10

Any help or fixes?

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Ubitux (lord-zak) wrote on 2006-11-12:

I confirm too... there is no list of access points. It is confirmed on lot of others machines.

Connected or not, it's the same.

Maybe launching the app in root change something, but I don't know what is its name.

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Steve Bourg (steve-ubuntu) wrote on 2006-11-24:

I have the exact same experience on three different laptops. The systems displayed the available ESSIDs prior to the 6.10 upgrade.

System #1: HP nc6230 w/ integrated wireless NIC
02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)

System #2: Dell Latitude D600 w/ integrated wireless NIC
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

System #3: Compaq nc6000 w/ integrated wireless NIC
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

I also tried a Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card in System #2 and got the same result. 'iwlist scanning' works as expected. Manually entering/typing the desired ESSID achieves AP association. However, this is not practical for my non-technical friends.