wifi gui tools?

groovin · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: wifi gui tools?

i am new to wifi in linux and recently started playng with it on a laptop... right now i am using wpa_supplicant to connect to my WAP, doing everything via conf files and scripts. is there an easy to use tool (gnome preffered, but kde is welcome too) that i can manage my wifi from?

thanks

Zepp · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:

wifi-radar or Network Manager?

jamapii · l33t Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 637

kwifimanager

I used kwifimanager to connect, and get the connection settings once. For "The Gentoo way", I had to translate its output to conf.d/net variables.

If you connect to new wlans often, kwifimanager might help. But in general I strongly prefer Gentoo's baselayout with conf files and scripts, it can manage an arbitrary number of wireless "profiles" that are configured once, then connect without manual intervention.