Airport Extreme not identified as wireless interface

[calum]

The bcm43xx driver is working as well as can be expected for me on my Powerbook G4, but the network monitor applet doesn't seem to think my Airport Extreme card is a wireless interface, i.e. it doesn't show signal strength on the panel or in its properties dialog. (I guess this could just be a bug with the applet, but it still shows signal strength for my Netgear PCMCIA wireless card when I plug that in.)

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

No need for 2 open tasks..

[Eric Butler (codebutler)]

Can you please clarify... your airport extreme card works properly if you configure it manually (using iwconfig, etc.), but the network monitor applet doesn't think it's a wireless interface?

[calum (calum-gnome)]

That was the case, yes... have since moved onto Edgy and everything's working fine, so can't give you any further information any more I"m afraid.

[Eric Butler (codebutler)]

Sounds like this was a problem with gnome-netstatus-applet that has since been fixed, so I am closing this bug.