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Bug 328994 - distinguish between wireless "standard" networks and wireless "ad-hoc" networks
distinguish between wireless "standard" networks and wireless "ad-hoc" networks
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nm-applet
0.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-28 17:49 UTC by Diego González
Modified: 2007-12-05 22:14 UTC
See Also:
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Description Diego González 2006-01-28 17:49:16 UTC 
windows xp has a very nice feature when showing the list of wireless networks present in a location, it has a different icon for "standard" network and "ad-hoc"  (computer-to-computre) networks. It would be very useful to have this implementent in the applet
Comment 1 oa 2006-03-21 18:04:21 UTC 
s/standard/managed/, and me too. in particular in conferences, it's often quite difficult to find the actual Internet connection Wi-Fi network amongs the many other laptops running in ad-hoc mode, and sometimes dozens of different SSIDs visible on the network.
Comment 2 Paul Dugas 2006-04-08 19:17:34 UTC 
I'm have a related problem where a user has their card set in ad-hoc mode and using the same SSID as the local managed network.  NM seems to be selecting the ad-hoc network over the one I really want.  Denial-of-service.
Comment 3 Scott James Remnant 2006-05-10 16:50:09 UTC 
It would also be nice if it could distinguish between standard, WEP and WPA networks in the list.
Comment 4 Scott James Remnant 2006-05-10 16:51:25 UTC 
Also see: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/36012
Comment 5 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-09-22 08:50:56 UTC 
Scott, encrypted networks ARE displayed differently in the drop down list.
Comment 6 Dan Williams 2007-12-05 22:14:16 UTC 
Long since fixed in 0.6.x and later; would be nice to show WPA networks differently but that's an enhancement.