Items reordered to fix top posting. On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 16:41, baytimur wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 15:38, Colin Brace wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> 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 > > > > try > > > > /sbin/iwlist scan > > > > That should list all the APs in the area of your laptop. If they are > > broadcasting their SSIDs it will show those too. > > I am running FC3, will that also work for me ? (Can not switch to fedora > for a few days so I had to ask ...) Should work. Although I understand there is a network management tool that may do the same thing in FC3. But iwlist should be part of the lower level tools available for handling wireless. The only problem you may have depends on the driver you are using with your wireless card. If it is using the ndiswrapper stuff you may be out of luck. Things like kismet will also not work with ndiswrapper. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx VMS is like a nightmare about RXS-11M.
