Re: [XBoard-devel] gtk update

[h.g. muller]

> Normally this is handled by NetworkManager. Clicking on
> the NetworkManager icon (somewhere in the top panel) should show you a 
> list of access points.
>
> If NetworkManager doesn't show anything then perhaps wireless is turned off?
>
> Otherwise dmesg might show you some error message related to wireless.

I found the NetworkManager icon. (It is not what I found when Googling on 
the internet,
two terminals, but in stead a spreading wave front. But it summons similar 
menus and
dialogs as they sy,so I suppose it is the one.)

Problem is that the menu is pops up does not list any wireless network. 
Just a wired
network, which does not work, because I have no cable.

I have a hardware button to turn the wireless adapter on and off, which 
also lights a LED.
under Ubuntu 8.04 this button was inactive, though: the LED was never on, 
and I was
always connected. Now the LED reacts to the button. But even if it is on, I 
don't get
any wireless item in the NetworkManager menu. I tried the configure VPN 
entry to
summon a dialog which also had a tab for adding and editing wireless 
connections.
I don't know how to use it, though. It asks for an SSID a BSSID and a MAC 
address.
I have no idea what to put there. Is SSID the name of the network you want 
to connect to?
(I called that address@hidden on the wireless router.) The MAC address is of my 
wireless card?
I have no idea how to approach that card. I found something about ifconfig, 
but it seems
to need a device name. I tries 'lsmod' (also because it was recommended 
somewhere),
but I do not find the name of my wireless card (a TNET1130) anywhere in its 
output.