F12 - nm-applet - enhancement maybe ?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 23 22:07:43 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:51 -0500, Mail Llists wrote: 
> 
>    Oftentimes there are mutliple AP's on the same SSID.
> 
>    It can be very useful to see what MAC addess of the AP one is
> currently connected to - it can also be very usefule to see the strength
> and info on eacP/MAC for the same SSID.
The mac address is the second line in the  the connection information
displayed for the active connection on my machine. 
> 
>    I looked in connection information but did not see the MAC there.
> 
>    Is there a way to see this info in nm-applet or is this somehow
> available now and I cant see it ?
> 
>    It would be nice if when it shows a list of available SSID's if this
> could be opened up to show a list of APs available - and of course allow
> one to choose if one wanted to (like when the one with the strongest
> signal is somehow broken).
> 
> 
>    thanks.
> 


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