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Author: thomas@redhat.com
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: This GOT to be stupid... How do I do a GUI wireles scan in Ubuntu 10.04 ?
On 07/13/2010 10:05 PM, wrote:
> OK, I am not a GUI fan, and besides, I've been a KDE user for years.
> I got fed up with KDE, strigi, nepomuserver and all that junk.
> So I am giving Ubuntu a spin...
> And thinking that I should go the XFCE way, but that's a different post.
> Anyway, sometime ago I bought a pre-installed Ubuntu laptop (that I
> returned for other reasons) and it had this nice icon in the panel that
> I could click, run a scan, and connect to a network.
> I installed a from-scratch 10.04 and I can't find a way to run a GUI scan.
> I can live with a manual scan from a terminal, but I am going to face a
> hard sell for the uninitiated...
> What am I missing?


nm-applet, maybe? Is NetworkManager running?
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