[Tfug] Wifi ESSID management

Jude Nelson judecn at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 09:06:23 MST 2007


You should be able to edit your /etc/hosts file to block the neighbor's
WiFi, if you don't want your wireless NIC to associate with their access
point :)

On 9/13/07, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:03:23PM +0000, Earl wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a Wifi manager that works from the command line
> > or a less sophisticated window manager such as TWM (a light weight
> > GUI will do).  I'm looking for something that allowing me to see a
> > list of available networks and choose one.
>
> iwlist man!  man iwlist.  e.g. `iwlist $interface scan`
>
> iwconfig man!  man iwconfig.  e.g., `iwconfig $interface essid $my-essid
> && dhclient $interface`
>
> Claude
>
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