From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: One of the problems I have been confronted with is the constant requirement to access configuration tools in order to change the wireless configuration. Now, several cards' drivers implement AP scanning (which can be used by iwlist scan). I think that either a init script or an applet (or both) should provide users with the possibility to reconfigure the wireless network "on the fly" if the connection to an AP fails in some way. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot a laptop with configured wireless 2. move out of the AP range (and in the range of another AP) Actual Results: network access fails and the user is required to manually select the alternative wireless setting. Expected Results: A notification about exceeding the signal range of the original AP should be made visibleto the user and a scan (if available) should be triggered. Additional info:
It sounds to me like NetworkManager, which is included in FC3, is designed to do this. If you "service network stop" and "service NetworkManager start" as root and then run NetworkManagerInfo, you should get the desired applet.
Correct; this isn't going to be added to the scripts outside of NM anytime soon.