I got bored and went a'googling in search of wireless shenangians under linux. I came across iwconfig(1) and iwlist(1) for rough equivilants of wicontrol(1). I also need to yank someone's cisco aironet cards and add ancontrol(1) support.

I might aswell make "modules" for each wireless situation, since I seem to be constantly coming up with more possibilities.

It still makes me happy when I walk back from class and by the time I get to my room my laptop's already associated to csh's network without any action on my part. It still needs a few more features; downing/re-upping the device if there is a network change so programs such as gaim and ssh will acknowledge connection drops.

More updates later...

syslog output reminding me of the sexiness of wiconf. I really ought to try and convince more people to use this thing. I'm going to make it linux friendly as soon as I can find someone with a laptop running linux.

nightfall pccardd[59]: wi0: NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC (Card) inserted.
nightfall wiconf[7517]: The following access points were found: 
nightfall wiconf[7517]: cshnowires / 00:30:ab:14:fe:eb 
nightfall wiconf[7517]: cshnowires / 00:80:c8:ac:fe:5a 
nightfall wiconf[7517]: rit / 02:04:23:cf:bc:3c 
nightfall wiconf[7517]:  
nightfall wiconf[7517]: Setting SSID to cshnowires 
nightfall wiconf[7517]: Running dhclient. 
nightfall dhclient: New Network Number: 129.21.60.0
nightfall dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 129.21.61.255
nightfall dhclient: New IP Address (wi0): 129.21.61.24
nightfall dhclient: New Subnet Mask (wi0): 255.255.254.0
nightfall dhclient: New Broadcast Address (wi0): 129.21.61.255
nightfall dhclient: New Routers: 129.21.61.254
nightfall wiconf[7517]: Associated with cshnowires 
nightfall wiconfd[7550]: Writing pid to /var/run/wiconfd.pid. 
nightfall wiconfd[7550]: Reading in the config file