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