In the past I have had to load the bleeding edge drivers after every reboot of the N900 so I presumed that it booted without them loaded... I'm not sure though. I find it strange that we have got to the point where the iwlist scan works but the GUI still somehow fails to pull the data.

I've downloaded status-area-wlan-driver-selector-applet:



Which seems good. When I load the bleeding edge drivers with it, iwlist scan doesn't work (as before, 'Network is down') and when I unload them with it (load stock drivers), the iwlist scan works; so, as expected. Interestingly though, when loading the stock drivers, it pops up the connection chooser where I would expect to see the wireless networks, but alas, still nothing. If this app is expecting them to be there in the state that it has left the phone.. surley they should be there.

Thanks for all the help so far I really appriciate it. I have learnt a lot already.