wifi mixup
 

First off before I upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 my wifi was working perfectly on Ubuntu 6.06. Now it is not. So I installed Ndiswrapper and got the driver and I'm back in business.

My only question is the drop down boxes in my network manager which would show me networks around the area no longer works.

So is there one I can install which would do a better job?

Future thanks,
Mike

i've always done it through the command line

I got this

jack@laptop:~$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

Does Ubuntu use wlan0 as your wireless alias? To find out open up a console window and type
it should pop up a list of devices and if it recognizes a card you'll get something like.

I wonna be able to look at other WIFI spots around me but I can't.

This is what I get:

jack@laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"netgear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:12:17:31:10:96
Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-60 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

iwlist eth1 scan