On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Colin Brace wrote: > How does one get online via public wireless access points in cafés and > so on an ad hoc basis? My laptop is running Core 2; iwconfig and > system-config-network recognize the wireless card, but I don't know how > to obtain the SSID and so forth at a given location. Mac and Win users > seem to have software which automatically detects a hotspot and brings > up a connection; is anything with comparable functionality available for > Linux? > > KDE WiFi Manager looks like it might offer something along these lines, > but the last Red Hat RPM is from April 2003 for RH8 and obviously > doesn't install under Fedora. See: > http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=52104 > I tried compiling it from source but got error messages. KWiFiManager comes with FC3 and works for me. # rpm -qf /usr/bin/kwifimanager kdenetwork-3.3.1-1
