Request before write

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Mon Mar 15 16:07:13 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 08:57 -0700, jack craig wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I am looking for a wireless users tool.
> 
> i'd like an app that i can launch and it will pop open a window and 
> report the 'visible' wireless networks, (name, strength, wep/not,etc).
> 
> any matches out there?

Before you go looking too far, if you're a Gnome user, clicking on the
NM applet shows similar information -- the ESSID names are listed, along
with a mini-bargraph of signal strength and icons for encryption and for
peer-to-peer. (Other DEs probably do something similar).

-Chris



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