Wireless Network Key

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:33 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>>     
>>> Its much easier for me to open a terminal and execute one of 11 shell
>>> scripts to connect to wherever I'm sitting.
>>>       
>> Sorry for a question that maybe sounds dumb, but I gotta ask: easier
>> than what? Easier than NM doing it automatically for you?
>>
>>
>>     
>
> See that's the thing.  NM doesn't always do it automatically. It's not 
> that transparent.  I've got 5 different secure wireless networks I deal 
> with pretty regularly.  Each with different settings.  NM couldn't 
> handle them all and keep my NIC from dying.  I inevitably has to reload 
> the module and then try it again.  With a script it takes 10 seconds to 
> switch between APs.  With NM it might take 20 seconds, or 2 minutes 
> depending on if it felt like behaving.
>
> As I've said before.  I type faster than I point and click.  My world is 
> much easier using bash scripts than some GUI app.  Not to mention the 
> fact that I don't always boot into RL5.
>
>   
I'm dealing with the same situation, also Gutsy didn't handle the type 
of security at one of the access points, so I pretty much HAD to use a 
script.