Decent Gnome wireless network tool
John McGregor
mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 15 03:40:36 UTC 2008
Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a simple graphical tool (Gnome) that will show me
> what wireless networks are in range and let me choose which I want to
> connect to (and enter the pass phrase when needed). I know one exists,
> as the Asus Eee and others have nice tools. In case it matters, I'm
> using Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Madi, who is forever stuck in command line.
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The folks on the Mepis forums have reported great success with wicd. Its
website has instructions for installing it on Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware etc.
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
HTH
John
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