I've noticed that network-admin now runs as non-root. According to the
man page for iwlist:
"Triggering scanning is a privileged operation (root only) and
normal users can only read left-over scan results. By default,
the way scanning is done (the scope of the scan) will be
impacted by the current setting of the driver."
So it sounds like it is impossible for network-admin running non-root to
scan for wireless networks. It would have to respawn with gksu or
something like that if scanning is requested by the user. perhaps there
needs to be a button to do this (Scan for wireless networks).
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Can't see available networks
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73049
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