How to scan for wifi hotspots?
Dale
rhl+dale at riyescott.com
Fri Dec 24 23:37:25 UTC 2004
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Colin Brace wrote:
> How does one get online via public wireless access points in cafés and
> so on an ad hoc basis? My laptop is running Core 2; iwconfig and
> system-config-network recognize the wireless card, but I don't know how
> to obtain the SSID and so forth at a given location. Mac and Win users
> seem to have software which automatically detects a hotspot and brings
> up a connection; is anything with comparable functionality available for
> Linux?
>
> KDE WiFi Manager looks like it might offer something along these lines,
> but the last Red Hat RPM is from April 2003 for RH8 and obviously
> doesn't install under Fedora. See:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=52104
> I tried compiling it from source but got error messages.
KWiFiManager comes with FC3 and works for me.
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/kwifimanager
kdenetwork-3.3.1-1
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