Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

[Ted Gould]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 18:14 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> I'm observing the counting of the vote in Pima County tonight.  On my
> personal laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Gnome 3 Classic desktop,
> Network Manager 0.9.4) I'm seeing WiFi "somethings" with an alternate
> icon.  Screenshot:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/1jimmarch/7181962971/
> 
> "PrettyFlyForAWiFi" is my personal Android cellphone doing a hotspot,
> that I'm connected to.  But what exactly are those other three?
> 
> I've looked for Network Manager documentation and haven't found squat.
>  And my Android 2.3 cellphone doesn't show 'em at all.
> 
> Trying to connect to them in Ubuntu fails.
> 
> Are these PCs set to ad-hoc mode, or WiFi printers, or ???

Ad-hoc networks.  More info:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Adhoc

		--Ted

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