Re: [orca-list] getting to wireless networks

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:14:10PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> Hi,
> In Ubuntu, when I plug in my wireless card, a message pops up to tell me 
> that wireless networks are in range.
> No doubt one of them is mine, and I want to access the wireless networks, so 
> I can enter the key to my router, but I don't know how to get to this list 
> of networks.
> I have made some wireless network connections in "network tools", but they 
> never connect, and that is why I want to connect to one of them in the list.
> It is like a balloon that comes up and tells me that there are wireless 
> networks, so I suspect that there is a panel of these sort of things to get 
> to.
> Thanks for suggestions.
>
> Glenn 
 
Why not install wireless-tools and run

wilist <interface> 
scanning

in text mode?

Bertil