[NTLUG:Discuss] x11 pcmcia network utility

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:30, kbrannen at verizon.net wrote:
> OK, I'll admit it, I've lost it, literally! :-)
> 
> About a year or so ago I had this nifty utility for PCMCIA network cards.  It was X11 based, IIRC.  It would show signal strength, network throughput, and other nifty-keeno stats, all in real-time.
> 
> Alas!  I left that company and the utility was on the laptop that got turned in.  I don't remember the name of the utility, or where I downloaded it from (it was OSS).  Not one of my more inspired moments. :-)
> 
> Google is no help, at least no when I do it because there are thousands of hits for stuff like this, or that least mention those words together. :-)  Freshmeat and SourceForge has also been less than helpful.
> 
> Can anyone help my memory?  Or do you know of a utility like this I can adopt? :-)

I use KDE and have KWiFiManager for my wireless.  It has a kpannel
applet that will show signal strength and you can click on it to bring
up a more detailed view.  I hvae the same thing for Gnome, but don't
rmember the name right now.

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