Bug 154671 - KWiFIManager: in wrong menu and not usable
Summary: KWiFIManager: in wrong menu and not usable
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 155438 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 6
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Depends on: 154994
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Reported: 2006-03-02 12:37 UTC by Danny Al-Gaaf
Modified: 2007-07-12 10:16 UTC (History)
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Description Danny Al-Gaaf 2006-03-02 12:37:38 UTC 
KWiFiManager is in the KDE menu under Internet-->Data Exchange. This is IMO the wrong place for KWiFiManager. This programm exchange no data. 

And if I click in KWiFiManager on: "Scan for Networks ..." button I get this error message: 

Unable to perform the scan. Please make sure the executable "iwlist" is in your $PATH.

Btw. since we have knetworkmanager, we maybe should drop this program.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2006-03-02 12:56:05 UTC 
it's not installed by default for a reason: because we do have knetworkmanager. If we would drop every program we have another version for, I'd all be for it. But you will have to file the drop request for vim.
Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2006-03-03 14:35:58 UTC 
well, it will never be usable, because "iwlist scan" does not work as non-root. so the whole application is a wontfix.
Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2006-03-03 14:57:45 UTC 
This is not 100% true. You can run 'iwlist scan' as a user, and you'll get the scan results the driver has. You can't trigger a scan, though. However, kwifimanager is not that useful on SUSE Linux indeed, but one could use it as a wireless signal monitor together with netcontrol.
Comment 4 Dirk Mueller 2006-03-05 00:25:38 UTC 
fixed category / iwlist warning upstream for 10.1.
Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2006-03-06 15:38:41 UTC 
*** Bug 155438 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***