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albright
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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: wifi selector gui |
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Hi all. Ubuntu has this excellent applet that monitors for wifi
access points and lets you select one to connect to. It handles
wep and wpa seamlessly.
Maybe I'm not looking in the right place but I can't find the
gentoo equivalent for kde 4.2.
Sorry if this question is vague, but what is the best gui
wifi selector/monitor/connector? I just want to see a
list of access points, click on one (enter key if necessary)
and connect ...
P.S. I do **not** want heavy duty and intrusive network
management that tries to take over my computer's network
connections when I'm not looking; like I said I just want
to see a list of access points, click on one (enter key if necessary)
and connect ...
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ppurka
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ubuntu uses the combination of networkmanager (as backend) + nm-applet (frontend, and pulls in tons of gnome dependencies). Now, for kde, I am not sure if they already have the "networkmanager applet in kde" (search for this phrase in google) in kde-4.2.3. If you have that applet, then you would have a kde-4 based GUI. Otherwise, you will need to consider installing knetworkmanager which depends on kde-3.
The other option is to install wicd. It works good most of the time,- but it lacks the very easy and clear interface of nm-applet.
Another option is to use wpa_supplicant directly, preferably the latest ~ version. Both networkmanager and wicd ultimately use wpa_supplicant. wpa_supplicant also has a decent GUI, but the GUI has to be run as root.
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albright
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thanks ppurka; I did not know wpa_gui even existed 
looks just like what I want except I guess it won't handle
wep encrypted networks, or does it?
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ppurka
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| albright wrote: | thanks ppurka; I did not know wpa_gui even existed
looks just like what I want except I guess it won't handle
wep encrypted networks, or does it? |
It handles everything related to wpa/wep. As I mentioned before, all the other network managing interfaces ultimately depend on wpa_supplicant.
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