Wifi Roamers

[Tobias Baldauf]

Thanks for the tipps!

My working-locations almost always have RJ45-Wired Internet access. So I 
needed something different than WiFi-Tools.

What I found is a project that I believe to be dead by now, but which 
works for me. First, you have to know that I'm using Kubuntu - not 
Ubuntu. That said, the tool is called 'Kubication' and can be found at 
www.kde-apps.org.

You can easily set up different profiles (Wired & Wireless), set the 
interface for the profile & switch them with one click of your mouse - 
and one typing-in of your password to confirm the change.

It works great for me although the tool seems not to be developed any 
further - which is sad because it is exactly what I need. But the 
version I downloaded (0.2) does the job I want it to do - and up until 
now it never crashed!

Hope I could help some others with this pointer!

Greets,

Tobias

Lee Tambiah schrieb:
>>> I'm currently experiencing the problem that I have to work on several
>>> different places - all with different ethernet settings. Sometimes it's
>>> dhcp, sometimes manual configurations. I'd like to have some sort of
>>> list which network-profile to use and just select the appropriate one
>>> (Right now I'm still on the road with some notepaper full if IPs &
>>> Gateway-Addresses...).
>>> I have tried to use the so-called 'Network-Profiles' in KDE (Using
>>> Kubuntu) but the thing just does not unfolds itself to me ... I can do
>>> something like name a profile ... and then? It doesn't seem that loading
>>> a profile changes anything at all... So how do I use this tool?
>>> Or is there another tool that supplies me with the functions I need?
>>
>> Hello Tobias,
>>
>> do you have an solution for your problem?
>> I am also an road warrior, and therefore I need many different Profiles
>> with different proxy settings ...
> 
> 
> I use The GNOME desktop and the network manager does not save the profile settings
> either. Unfortunateley I change them each time I go to a new network. In terms of
> wi-fi look for some software (like wifi radar), which allows easy access and auto detection
> of wireless networks. Alternatively if you feel up to it you could write a little script that
> would enable you to set it to your preferences.
> 
> For help on making a script see this page on the ubuntu wiki:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lee Tambiah
>