  Neutrino telescopes of large area offer the possibility of searching for
indirect signals of relic neutralinos in the galactic halo, due to
annihilations in the Sun or the Earth. Here we investigate the sensitivity,
using a supergravity scheme where the soft scalar mass terms are not
constrained by universality conditions at the grand unification scale. We first
discuss in which regions of the supersymmetric parameter space the neutralino
may be considered as a good candidate for cold dark matter. The discovery
potential of the search using neutrino telescopes is then compared to that of
the direct search for relic neutralinos.
