Hi again,
I wanted to check both at home and at work before answering the questions.
>> I have a problem with NetworkManager at work, where the APs don't
>> broadcast their ESSID. At home, where I don't hide the ESSID, there is
>> no problem.
Actually, I was wrong, also my AP at home hides its ESSID ....
>
> Does the AP show up in the scan list if you do a manual "iwlist ethX
> scan" as root?
It does show up at home (with hidden ESSID as mentioned above).
It does *NOT* show up at work. Only after I configured the network
entering the ESSID and the WEP key manually, the AP shows up in the
iwlist scan.
So there is a clear difference between the two locations
>
>> So, here it goes: I'm running NetworkManager on a Dell D600 and really
>> like it, especially the dispatcher feature. However, when I'm at work,
>> the internal wireless network does not show up in the list that the
>> nm-applet provides. I can connect to it without problem using the
>> 'Connect to other wireless networks' option. Then it shows in the list.
>> However, next time I reboot the machine and look into the applet, the
>> internal network is gone again from the list. It's a WEP encrypted
>> network, if that makes any difference.
>>
>> in ~/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks I find a configuration
>> for the network, but it never shows up. It kind of defeats the purpose
>> of NetworkManager, if you need to configure the same network all the
>> time again.
>
> Does the AP's bssid (looks like a MAC address) show up in the "bssids"
> key in the saved settings for that wireless network? NM caches the
> BSSID of base stations it's connected to for each wireless network, and
> then reverse-matches those to the BSSIDs it finds in the scan list, and
> that's how it finds hidden SSID access points. We need to figure out
> which part here is breaking down.
Yes, the bssid is stored in the settings. In fact, since I saw from the
iwlist scan results, that there are apparently 2 APs for the same
network, I added the second bssid to the settings manually using
gconf-editor. But again, after a reboot of the machine, the internal
network was not available in the network list.
Thanks,
Riko
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