Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 14 April 2007 01:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Sven Köhler schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into
> > them, if he finds one, that i prefer?
>
> You will find some useful informaton and links here:
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html

As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate 
with the next available device when it comes into range.  Some drivers are 
not that good at re-associating.  In that case you may have to modprobe -r 
and then reload the driver, or unplug/replug the WiFi device if it is a 
USB/cardbus.  If you engage in the noble sport of <aheam> wardriving then you 
will need to use a good device that has well developed drivers in Linux.  I 
am not aware of a daemon that performs this function in parallel to the WiFi 
device driver, sort of a ifplugd for wireless, but others may know better.
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Regards,
Mick

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