.09 in dapper semi-functional?

[b3nw]

it seems to work but only if you unload it from your taskbar and re-load it, also the connect but is always grey for me, but double clicking on the network I want pushes it through.

[Grey]

Count your lucky stars. ;)

With me, it seems to still work to some degree. It does connect to networks I had saved in Breezy. However, there are a few "issues".

1) It freezes my computer for a split second about once every 10 seconds, as it reconnects. For that (very brief) time period, internet access is lost.

2) Scanning for networks yields a blank list. Refreshing does not help.

In short, it's completely useless for me. I have personally reverted back to using the command line to connect, as I can't stand Network Manager. (It just doesn't feel right).

But yeah, I'm confirming that it's semi-functional. ;)

[danh]

It seems that some icons have moved in dapper.

Replacing all occurences of "/usr/share/icons/hicolor" with "/usr/share/icons/gnome" in /usr/bin/gtkwifi makes gtkwifi work again for me.

[Grey]

Interesting. That does indeed seem to do the trick. Thanks for the help. :) I seem to be able to scan for new networks now.

It still seems to be disconnecting and freezing about once a minute though.

[naked]

I emailed the developer about 5 minutes ago with these issues before I found this post. I also made the changes noted here and it worked! Only problem now is the disconnects every 10 seconds. From reading other posts, it seems that it disconnects because of certain wireless drivers/hardware can't scan while connected.

I looked through the gtkwifi program, but I'm not good enough to be able to find out how to disable scanning. Not sure if that would be beneficial or not. I wouldn't mind going to preferences and clicking refresh when I need to switch APs.

L

[Grey]

Yeah, I saw that other thread. I have a IPW2200. The first thing I did when I saw that thread was I tried pinging google, and running iwlist repeatedly while doing so, to see if it would drop my connection. It never. It's something else that gtkwifi is doing during its refresh period. I have looked through the source code a little, but it's a little hard to read, as you say. Nevertheless, I couldn't see any other system calls that would mess up the internet connection at all. I am quite honestly mystified.

[naked]

I've been digging around some more and I found /usr/bin/gtkwifi-settings-client

So I've been poking at this section of code:
if connectdata[0] == "scan":
commands.getoutput('iwlist "' + connectdata[1].strip() + '" scan')

I've tried taking out: + '" scan'
And also I've tried commenting out this whole section.

Both keep the icon from changing to no signal, but I'm still losing pings. So I don't know if this has fixed the problem or not. However, when I kill gtkwifi, I remain connected, and still lose pings, so this makes we think that it isn't gtkwifi that is making me lose pings. So I just don't know if this fixes anything or not.

Care to give it a shot Grey?

L

[naked]

Hum. So whatever I did made things not awesome. So I reverted back to the orginal, not sure what to do now. Maybe someone with some more coding experience can look over gtk-settings-client?

L

[Grey]

I've played with it a little, but am getting some very confusing results. I will play with it sometime when I have more time. (I have a midterm tomorrow). I think you found the right source file though, and the solution should be in there. I was looking in completely the wrong place, as I thought that was just saved settings. So kudos.

I CAN fix this. Just not right now. :) (Hopefully the author does before I do, as it would mean that I wouldn't have to relearn all I've forgotten about Python).

My temporary solution is to connect to the network, and then remove the applet. It's a royal pain, but it works.

[Grey]

I've switched to network-manager, due to the difficulties with gtkwifi. I will still make an attempt to fix it though. It just might take me some time. (But the new network-manager is pretty cool. You should check it out. I'm beginning to think that other than having problems with my /etc/network/interfaces file, it actually does the job better than gtkwifi.)