[arch-general] network WTF

[David Rosenstrauch]

Jaime Oyarzun Knittel wrote:
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> What makes this even more annoying is that apparently some of the
>> wireless tools I'm using suffer from this restriction as well.  So on
>> the old laptop, kwifimanager and knemo show accurate info about the
>> current connection (bit rate, link quality, etc.) while on the new
>> laptop these come up empty.
> 
> Maybe it's a group issue? Are the users in the 'network' group?


Yep.


> Can you
> associate manually to an access point?

Not sure what you mean by "manually".  I usually use either 
networkmanager/knetworkmanager or netcfg for networking, both of which 
require root privs.

DR