[COLUG] Auto-attaching to arbitrary wireless networks

[Robert Foreman]

Have you tried wifi-radar?

On Nov 20, 2007 6:50 PM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> Duane wrote:
> > Rob Funk wrote:
> > > So I started doing some apt-cache searching.
> > >   apt-cache search wireless | grep -i kde
> >
> > Oh so close :)
> >
> > # apt-cache search networkmanager|grep -i kde
> > knetworkmanager - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
> > network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
> >
> > seems network manager isn't a window manager specific app, but provides
> > hooks for window manager specific apps.
>
> Hmm, I already had that running; Kubuntu has that running by default.  It
> doesn't do anything with scanning or associating with wireless networks,
> but if the card is associated with a network then knetworkmanager lets me
> set up the TCP/IP aspect (i.e. usually kick dhclient).
>
> I just came back from someplace where I suspected there might be a
> wireless access point.... I first used kwifimanager to scan, found and
> attached to a network with their name on it, then used knetworkmanager to
> get an IP address.  Worked well enough.
>
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