wireless!

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 14:23:05 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Setting up a system for some people making the switch from windows, and
> have no idea. :) So on my system, I'm a bit of a command line guy, I use
> wpa_supplicant for managing my wireless. What graphical tool is best for
> the gnome desktop to adjust wireless settings? Is it network-admin? The
> network uses wpa v1, and the device is supported, sudo iwlist scan shows
> up networks! So, what is the most user friendly gnome graphical tool for
> managing all networks, with wep, wpa and even no security?


Hey Daniel - isn't this a repost?

To summerize the thread - Network Manager and Wicd both do what you want.
Many people using Hardy prefer Wicd, but it can be more awkward if you
need to set up a VPN as well.

Brian




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