GUI Wireless Tools

[Ed Fletcher]

niran wrote:
> Ed Fletcher Wrote: 
>>Does anyone know of a Gnome interface to iwlist and iwconfig?
>>Or is there something else I should be using?
> 
> I'm running Warty and I use Debian's netapplet package:
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/netapplet
> 
> If you're running Hoary, I think there's a package in universe that
> depends on Gnome 2.9 libraries. Netapplet hasn't been all that great
> for me though. When I tell it to use the wireless interface, it doesn't
> get an ip address for it (or maybe it tries and fails). I run dhclient
> on the interface afterwards to get everything set up. 
> 
> Another option is NetworkManager:
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~thom/network-manager/
> 
> I haven't been able to try that one out because Warty's ndiswrapper
> version doesn't report it's capabilities to HAL, so NetworkManager
> ignores it. If you're not using ndiswrapper, it might be worth a shot.
> 
> 
> The wiki page on this topic is here:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NetworkMagic
> 
> I'm not sure where Ubuntu is heading post-Hoary in regards to these two
> projects, nor what the "shame about the implementation" is about in
> regards to NetworkManager (it'd be nice to see that added to the wiki),
> but for Hoary it looks like netapplet is the preferred solution.

Hi Niran:

I'm running Warty without the ndiswrapper, so I'll have a look at 
NetworkManager.  The SMC2835 works great at home but I've had lots of 
problems in places like coffee shops where I don't know the channel nor 
the BSSID.  I'll load NetworkManager tomorrow and give it a try on Thursday.

Many thanks,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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