how to find wireless networks?

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

I had problems with this. I went to synaptic package manager and installed
wicd
which is a network managet working much better than the ubuntu default
manager.

Kjetil

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 18:10, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 11:40 -0800, Steve Howell wrote:
>> That appears to be what I was looking for:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install wifi-radar
>> sudo wifi-radar
>
> If you click the Network Manager Icon in the tray (right next to the
> clock... it looks like an empty wireless indicator, or a disconnected
> wire if you're not connected to a network) you will be presented with a
> flyout menu showing all available networks (wired and wireless). Click
> one to connect to it.
>
> Hope that helps
>
>
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