Tim Teulings wrote: > If you really only want a tool that beeps if there is an open wireless > network in reach I could add this feature to WifiInfo... That'd be terrific. Ideally a network with a signal strength in excess of some threshold, as it seems anything below about 25% signal strength never connects. > WifiInfo uses the internal wlan daemon for scanning... I ran across WifiInfo in the repository, and I hadn't realized from the short description that it had a scanning feature (which I see mentioned in the change log). I thought it only reported on the current, active connection. (The description does say, "...about your current WLAN connection...") > This however would only scan for open networks, not for networks that > [would need to] be hacked (and would do no hacking at all). Right, that's the desired behavior. > Note however that rapit scanning will reduce battery life time > significantly... I figured that. That's an acceptable tradeoff when you're looking for a network. -Tom _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
