Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

In Linux I use two scripts. I store the passwords in two plain files:

wep:
#! /bin/sh
key="`grep $1 /home/pmarin/wep | cut -d' ' -f2`"
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid $1
sudo iwconfig wlan0 key $key
sudo dhclient wlan0

wpa:
#! /bin/sh
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid $1
sudo wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/home/pmarin/wpa -B
sudo dhclient wlan0

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Ilya Ilembitov <ilembitov_AT_ya.ru> wrote:
> Hi, all.I wanted to ask for an advice.
>
> Being a laptop user, I have to swtich between wireless networks quite frequently, and often I have to connect to the new networks. So, I am in need of a tool that would allow me to automatize the whole routine: provide me with a list of networks, allow me to select the one to connect, find out the type of encryption and actually connect to it (prompting me for the encryption key, if needed) - since I don't think that I'll be able to memorize all the wpa_supplicant options to use it fluently (i.e. without having to read the manpage each time I want to connect to a new network).
>
> The current options that I am aware of:
>
> 1. Networkmanager - ties a lot of dependencies and is not quite stable
>
> 2. wicd - has a ncurses flavour, I'll probably give it a try.
>
> 3. connman (that thing that is used in Moblin/Meego) - quite young and I haven't heard much of it, and whether it could be used outside of its original environment. Although I believe I have read somewhere that E17 people were trying to make a EFL GUi to it, so probably it's rather flexible.
>
> Any other options? I was hoping that someone has already come up with a custom solution that would integrate into dwm/dmenu environment nicely.
>
>
> --
> wbr, Ilembitov
>
>
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