F12 - nm-applet - enhancement maybe ?

[Sam Sharpe]

2010/1/24 Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 17:34 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
>> On 01/23/2010 05:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>> > The mac address is the second line in the  the connection information
>> > displayed for the active connection on my machine.
>> >>
>>
>>
>>    That is my MAC address - i know that one - i'd like to see the MAC
>> address of the AP I am connected to - (and also the MAC's of all
>> available APs esp when there are multiple AP's on same SSID.
>
> That indeed is true. However, in the connection information is the ip
> address of the AP your connected to.
> Then : arp -a ip-address
> will give you its MAC address

You are of course correct, however that's not the point of the original post:

>  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 each AP/MAC for the same SSID.
<snip>
> Is there a way to see this info in nm-applet or is this somehow
> available now and I cant see it ?

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Sam