GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 355098
network-admin doesn't scan for networks
Last modified: 2006-11-19 15:40:26 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/59159 "Since a few weeks back, network-admin doesn't list any ESSID's for my wireless device. But they sure can be scanned. "iwlist scanning" shows access points near by." src/network/connection.c wireless_essid_populate_model() has most of its code commented
I've just committed code to HEAD to scan wireless network dynamically (including quality and encryption), this code uses libiw directly and is built only if the library and development files are found at configure time gnome-2-16 branch doesn't have this code, but backporting shouldn't be too hard