Re: Utility for controling wireless LAN?

From: Joe Pfeiffer (pfeiffer_at_cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: 10 Jan 2005 11:27:15 -0700

nospam@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) writes:

> In Windows, I used to have an icon that represented the WLAN
> connection. It could be used to check signal strength, disable
> the connection, and wake it up again later. Is there any similar
> utility available for Linux? I can't figure out how to temporarily
> disable the connection in YaST other than by un-installing the card,
> which is a bit drastic.

I use apradar, which works well for what it does but doesn't manage
WEP keys. That project went into "scrap it all and do a total
rewrite" a while ago, so I haven't seen any recent releases, though.

> Also, is there a good free anti-virus program for Linux?

Not necessary. Though there is chkrootkit, a good free rootkit
checker. 

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