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Re: GUI for wireless networking



On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Nirmal Govind wrote:

>
>Hi.. is there some sort of a GUI that shows the available wireless networks
> in the area? Reason I ask is I have a few networks at my workplace and they
> have varying signal strengths.. so I need to often switch my wireless ESSID
> based on where I am and how strong each signal is.. any tool that can make
>this process easier? (other than running ifconfig/iwconfig).. it's also
>useful when one goes to a new area and is looking around for a network..
>

With gnome2 you have an applet to do that. You even have the
new gDesklets project (karamba-like for GNOME wich also works with
fluxbox, xfce, ...) :

http://www.pycage.de/software_gdesklets.html

Best

Olivier



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