[COLUG] Auto-attaching to arbitrary wireless networks

[Duane]

Rob Funk wrote:

> So, is there an easier way to arbitrarily detect and connect to random 
> wireless networks with these various interfaces?  No points for a 
> half-GUI, half-command-line solution, since that's worse than the 
> all-command-line solution I use now.
> 
> My dream would be to be able to set up a series of essids (optionally 
> ending with "any") to try until one succeeds, and attach to that.  That 
> would eliminate my hack of a different card for each different network.  
> As far as I know that's not currently possible, though I'd love to be 
> proven wrong.

Not sure about kde, but gnome now has nm-applet which hooks into the
dbus stuff and it's all pointy clicky for the most part, and once
connected the tray icon turns into a signal meter, for this to work you
actually have to remove all network interfaces from the interfaces
config file.

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 Duane

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