Re: [SLUG] Wireless at Panera Bread

From: Mavrick (icebergwaltz@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 08:07:13 EDT


On 4/13/05, Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:36 -0400, Doug Koobs wrote:
> > I'm at Panera Bread in Clearwater Mall.
>
> Can you get the netapplet 1.0 applet for Ubuntu (it's for Gnome)? It

** FYI: There is an article on netapplet in the current (May) issue
of Linux Journal. The author mentions that there is a readily
available rpm for SuSE, but that others are available as well (per
above Ubuntu is included in this statement). I will be downloading
and trying it out in the near future.

Just a tidbit of info. Eric

> autodetects and configures everything and only shows the usable
> unencrypted (as well as encrypted) networks. When you click on the bar
> for the network, netapplet activates that network after about 15-30
> seconds and shows a graphical link strength icon. Because of netapplet,
> I've switched back to Gnome from KDE for wireless cafe loitering.
> --
> -The Ghost of Jim Varney
>
>
>

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