Tools for scanning/managing WiFi

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 02:50:28PM +0100, robert rottermann wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 02:45 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> >On 8 February 2014 13:38, robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
> >>...
> >>http://www.energie-cluster.ch/ecweb5/de/ecweb_site/@@company-listing-new
> >Did you post the wrong link by any chance?
> >
> >Colin
> >
> in deed ..
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Scan_for_Wireless_Network
> 
This says (among other things):-

    There are a multitude of fine, graphical wireless network
    configuration programs available to the Ubuntu community.

Well I have yet to find any and that's exactly what I was asking for! 

The above link details how to scan for WiFi from the command line and,
yes, iwlist does help somewhat but it's a very clumsy tool when there's
lots of WiFi networks out there because of the verbosity of its output.
It was using iwlist that made me ask this specific question simply
because its output was so difficult to use.

-- 
Chris Green