F12 - nm-applet - enhancement maybe ?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 24 20:26:27 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 10:44 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: 
> On 01/24/2010 09:25 AM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> 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:
> > 
> 
>    Yes indeed - also its even easier to see it via iwconfig wlan0 .. but
> as sam said thats not the point.
> 
>  gene/
Ok, I admit it . I am missing the point. My bad.

First of all I have no wlan0 on my machine. The OP wanted the MAC for
the AP. This gives him that. He also wanted the MAC address for other
APs with the same SSID. That he does not get using my approach. 

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