[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#430412: Bug#430412: network-manager: Please support explicit rescanning

[Michael Biebl]

Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:32:48PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> NetworkManager already supports that, sort of. Every time you click on the
>> nm-applet in the notification area, the list will be refreshed.
> 
> Not for me: iwlist eth1 scan often shows very different results from
> the context menu.

That is, because NM uses a different algorithm to collect the scan results than
iwlist scan. NM uses an expire list, so APs are not immediately dropped if a
scan does not find them anymore.

Cheers,
Michael

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