On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:10:19 -0500, Michael Berkowski wrote:
> On 10/21/2010 6:37 AM, greg wm wrote:
>> i recently read of a wireless network chooser that works without a
>> desktop/wm/gui, but now can't remember, what's its name?
>>
>
> Newer NetworkManager includes nmcli to manage via console or script.
> It's in Fedora 13.
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/User_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Connecting_to_the_Internet-NM_CLI.html
>
> Otherwise if not using NetworkManager, iwlist and iwconfig with
> wpa-supplicant are the old-fashioned way.

 There is also WICD. It has a cli component. 
 http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
 -Jeremy