Wifi won't connect with password

[Jerry Lapham]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 4:18:36 am Gordon Schulz wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at cinci.rr.com> wrote:
> > Most of the time when I run "iwlist scan" I get "wlan0  No scan results"
> > even though I'm connected and can browse and email.  Sometimes it sees my
> > router. But it so far has never showed any of the neighbors' ESSIDs that
> > I used to see with Knetworkmanager.
> >
> > Any idea why?
>
> Only reason I can think of is that you do the 'iwlist scan' without
> sudo/root privileges. Scanning as normal user only gives the left-over
> scan results from prior scannings, so that would explain the
> inconsistent behaviour. I'd assume (k)networkmanager does it's scanning
> with at least temporary root privileges to see the SSIDs in range.
> --
> Gordon.

That's it.  Thanks.

	-Jerry
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