Re: Wireless Browsing/Switching

["Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr - Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems" <politby sun com>]

Hmmm, couldn't get kwifimanager to compile from source, and the 
kdenetwork rpm appears not to contain kwifimanager. Any tips?

/POL

Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun 
Microsystems wrote:

> That's part of kdenetwork, right? I wasn't aware it would run in 
> Gnome. Will install it and try it out.
>
> thanks,
>
> Erik Espinoza wrote:
>
> > Personally I use kde with http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/. It has
> > profiles and works real well. It works fine even in Gnome. I don't
> > know of a native Gnome one, but if you don't care about the Widget
> > set, I'd recommend this one.
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:15:54 +0200, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr
> > Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun  Microsystems
> > <politby sun com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I have a pretty well functioning wireless interface on my Fedora Core 2
> > > system. It "just works" unless there is more than one wireless network
> > > available in a location. When the network is started, the WLAN 
> > > interface
> > > just connects to one of them (don't know which criteria are used in
> > > selecting which one) and in case I want to use another one, there's 
> > > lots
> > > of manual fiddling with parameters involved.
> > >
> > > I'm sure there is a utility (for Gnome) somewhere which makes it easier
> > > to browse available WLANs and select which one to connect to. Can
> > > someone point me to one?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
> >  

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