Network Manager doesn't show available wireless connections

I have Arch set up on a laptop. I've used it for about a month around the house without a problem. Today I did a little "road tripping," and was surprised to find that network manager wasn't showing me any wireless connections. There were no errors shown, just no connections were offered when I went to places that I know have wireless available. My experience with other distro's is that network manager will show a sidebar with the available wireless connections and let me choose whether I want to connect or not. But when I went into a coffee shop or restaurant, nothing showed up offering anything. I took a look at the network manager and wireless wiki's and didn't see anything that I might have missed during the installation. What tells network manager that there are wireless networks available?

Hi
+". . . they are exactly the same clone . . ."+
This might be where your problem begins and ends? If you joined client # 1 to OD and then cloned this to create client # 2 then you're probably going to have the problems you're seeing?
If you want all your workstations to be the same it's best to remove any references to any LDAP Server as well as any TGTs. It's also a good idea to give each client workstation unique names prior to joining an LDAP Directory after they've been imaged. You can create a NetBoot Image with an associated workflow that will define unique names as well as join an LDAP Directory as Post Install actions.
The above assumes you actually meant to post in the appropriate Snow Leopard Forum rather than the 10.4 one? Perhaps you should have posted here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1349
HTH?
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