lint-wifi is a relatively simplistic application written in PyGTK for the Neo Freerunner. It aims to create a GUI-based method for associating with wireless networks, and provide various bits of connection-related information and control. It is designed to work without a stylus, except when entering passwords (which are normally stored). It is at the moment intended to do nothing unless a button is pushed.
It will be released soon.
There are several requirements needed to run lint-wifi:
lint-wifi is broken into pages, each page offering various bits of information or control. Below are the pages, as they exist at version .1A
AP List will show APs that can currently be seen. They will initially be ordered by how wpa_supplicant feels are best. Columns include:
Buttons:
The Status page will primarily indicate the configured status of eth0.
The Renew DHCP button can be used to nudge udhcpc into renewing. For a description of Auto Mode, see below.
The Conn page shows information related to the associated AP.
Config is at present empty, but will contain various lint-wifi configuration options, such as support for hiding certain columns in the AP List.
Auto Mode (my name for it) is wpa_supplicant's default mode of operation, and allows it to connect to any network it sees available.
The Dis/connect button on the AP List page can disable Auto Mode if you tell it to connect to a known AP (connecting to an unknown one will not disable it). This is due to the fact that wpa_supplicant assumes it knows best in selecting an AP, and by you telling it otherwise, it will only connect to that one AP until you allow it to connect elsewhere.
It is best to simply leave it on. Odds are, you will not connect to a network you don't intend to -- wpa_supplicant will default to networks with encryption that it knows before it ventures to unencrypted (it will also pick the strongest encryption method first), so you're not likely to end up on a neighbour's wifi just because it can see it. This can be further dictated by setting priorities in your wpa_supplicant.conf (a feature to be added later to lint-wifi).
A couple other screenshots: