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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:41 PM, luis jure <ljc@××××××××××××.uy> wrote: |
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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... |
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Thanks, wicd seems to work well enough to show me the networks in my |
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neighborhood. I'll have to figure out how to connect to one when I get |
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to my destination tomorrow night. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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