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on 2011-07-18 at 18:17 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> What sort of apps are available to discover a public network ESSID? |
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>Something GUI based would be appreciated if it's in portage. |
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i got good results with wicd in the past. i got it to work fine on a |
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gentoo laptop for exactly what you need, if understood your mail correctly. |
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i don't have a laptop anymore, and on my netbook i have xubuntu. they use |
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network-manager as a default. wicd is lighter and works fine, but |
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network-manager has the advantage of working with mobile broadband, while |
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wicd doesn't. but i never could make network-manager work on gentoo... |