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WiFi Radar - Simple tool to Manage Wireless Profiles

Posted by admin on January 12th, 2008 Email This Post Email This Post

WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.

Install WiFi Radar in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install wifi-radar

This will complete the installation.

Using WiFi-Radar

If you want to open goto Applications—>Internet—>Wifi-radar

This will prompt for root password enter and click ok

This should detect available wireless networks check your wireless and connect

If you want to create new profile open the application and click on new

You can see similar to the following scree enter all the details and you are ready for wireless

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4 Responses to “WiFi Radar - Simple tool to Manage Wireless Profiles”

  1. abonvie Says:

    This seemed to load fine. The GUI doesn’t show the connect button. The banner isn’t blue either if that makes a difference.

  2. fadz8L Says:

    hi all,

    sudo aptitude install wifi-radar <<<< where I should paste this code ? I’m a really-really new in this Ubuntu environment … Plz help me out …

    Thanks,
    Fadz8L

  3. admin Says:

    @fadz8L
    go to Applications—>Accessories—>Terminal

    this will open terminal after open the terminal you need to enter the command you have menctioned

  4. r0cks0ul Says:

    Will this work using ndiswrapper?
    it seems like it wont, I can pick up my neighbors ssid when i right click on the network icon
    but using WiFi-radar it wont…..

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