Hi,

http://bugs.debian.org/230564

I am using an aironet wireless card.  Current drivers configure both
/dev/ethX and /dev/wifiX.  The wireless-applet has a bug which
mistakenly assumes that a machine will only have one interface listed
in /proc/net/wireless.  In particular, it checks whether or not exactly
one interface has been matched and reports no interfaces.

This can be fixed with the following patch against the main routine:
wireless/wireless-applet.c:

--- wireless-applet.c	2004-01-31 17:09:55.000000000 -0500
+++ wireless-applet.c.orig	2004-01-31 16:11:49.000000000 -0500
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@
 	if (g_list_length (applet->devices)==1) {
 		wireless_applet_set_device (applet,
 				(char*)applet->devices->data);
-	} else if (g_list_length (applet->devices)==0) {
-	        wireless_applet_update_state (applet,
+	} else {
+		wireless_applet_update_state (applet,
 				applet->device, -1, -1, -1);
 	}