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