"wifi-radar" wanted

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 22:01 -0400, gotmonkey wrote:
> I do have a question about wifi-radar. Here is what I done. I
> de-activated the wireless card (Atheros 5211) in the default network
> applet and wifi-radar finds my AP and connects to it. But until I close
> the program, my wireless connection's signal fluctuates greatly. Also,
> when I reboot my system, I don't get a wireless connection until I fire
> up wifi-radar and connect to my AP manually. Is this by default of the
> program? 

You can run wifi-radar at boot time with the -d option. I added the
option 'up wifi-radar -d' to my interace definition for the wireless
card in /etc/network/interfaces.

This causes it to run without a user interface and connect to a network.
I'm not sure quite how it decides which one to connect to, but it seems
to do the right thing for me most of the time.

Regards,
Tony.
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