Windows has a nice feature* where you can write down a list of preferred ESSIDs: if you're in range of a given hotspot, Windows will associate with it. Does Linux have such a thing? I've not found it, if so. Ubu seems like the most likely distro to innovate on this sort of usability feature. Other features would fit nicely into the ESSID picker -- e.g., remembering the MAC addresses of hotspots with hidden ESSIDs. The next time you came within range of such a hotspot, this feature would look up the MAC addresses of every hidden hotspot and associate with the ones whose ESSIDs you had stored. Likewise, does Linux have a facility for storing WEP/WPA keys for hotspots that we've previously authenticated with? This could integrate nicely with programs like airsnort: every time you cracked a new key or hidden ESSID, airsnort would store it and this preferred-ESSID feature would be able to connect to it from then on. This would then be *more* usable than Windows, if I'm not mistaken. Is this sort of thing available? * - if this were Slashdot, this would immediately result in my post being rated a 1 or at most a 2. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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