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Last Update: Jan 29, 2010

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What Is WiFi Radar?

WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles on GNU/Linux.

It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.

WiFi Radar is tested to work with a rtl8187-based USB NIC on Slackware 12.2 but should work just the same for any iwconfig interface. To use WiFi Radar you need to have the following:

Maintainer/Developer: Sean Robinson <seankrobinson@gmail.com>

Screenshots

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WR v2.x Profile Editor thumbnail
WR v2.x Advanced Prefs thumbnail

News

January 29, 2010 - I have released the seventh stable version of WiFi Radar v2.0. Thanks to Prokhor Shuchalov this release contains several bug fixes related to non-DHCP use. Without these fixes it is unlikely non-DHCP profiles work properly.

January 1, 2010 - WiFi Radar versions previous to v2.0 are no longer supported. I have removed the links to support pages for v1.x and for v1.9.9 downloads.

Because WR 2.0.x is now in Debain testing and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), I have included links to the native packages for these distributions. If you know of any other distro packages, let me know and I will add links to them here.

December 29, 2009 - I have updated the development ROADMAP to (hopefully) reflect my timeline for the next version of WiFi Radar.

August 28, 2009 - I have released the sixth stable version of WiFi Radar v2.0. This release adds three environment variables to the execution shell for the connection and disconnection scripts and provides a verbose error message when a pre-2.0 configuration file is read.

July 20, 2009 - I have written an updated HOWTO for using WPA with WiFi Radar v2.0.x, as things have become much simpler since the original directions were written. The previous HOWTO is still available on the Support page for those who need to manually install and configure WPA.

Previous News

License

WiFi Radar is released under the GPLv2 license.

Contact Info

Send patches, bug reports, and compliments to the WiFi Radar mailing list
<wifi-radar@lists.anl.gov>.
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