Fwd: Re: [Techtalk] How do I get pcmcia wireless card to work

[coldfire]

>  > Whoops... forgot to say I went ahead and installed this packed last
>  > night despite what it said about 2.4 kernel not needing it.  Didn't
>  > think it had worked cuz I'd forgotten to HUP cardmgr.   Now the wireless
>  > card (eth1) is working fine!!   But still wondering what software do
>  > people use to monitor the signal strength or even to identify which
>  > network the wireless card will connect to if there's more than one.

iwconfig is part of the wireless tools package ... it'll give you output
like this:

Link Quality:13/10  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm

there are a number of programs which interpret the signal level and give
you a little graph .. i think there's even a plugin for gkrellm :)  just a
matter of finding them.


coldie