[lug] WiFi utils

[John Hernandez]

Bryan Field-Elliot wrote:

> I'm using RedHat 9 and am underwhelmed by the support (or maybe just 
> the documentation) for Wifi...
>
> I roam between three SSID's frequently: My home, my office, and a 
> local coffee shop (Cafe Soleil actually). I'd like for my 
> configuration to always be watching for any of these SSID's, and if I 
> roam to a new one, then automatically connect as well as run DHCP 
> client. This seems pretty normal to me but I don't see any utilities 
> bundled with RH to do it. Can anyone give me any pointers? What I'm 
> doing now is manually reconfiguring ifcfg-eth1 every time I go to a 
> new place, then running ifdown-eth1 and ifup-eth1.
>
> I've also tried playing with scanning utilities - iwlist and iwspy, 
> but they never seem to return any access points (though I can connect 
> just fine if I explicitly configure one in ifcfg-eth1).

Also check out ifplugd for an automagic approach, available at 
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/

Cheers,
John