Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 ITP: wifi-switcher -- script to automatically switch between networks On Sb, 14 nov 15, 16:53:04, Oleg SHALAEV wrote: > Package: wifi-switcher > Severity: ITP > License: GPL > Section: net > > Motivation: I think that network-manager and wicd duplicate functionality of reliable command line tools > like wpasupplicant and hostapd. > > Following idea http://jamhed.dreamwidth.org/82198.html > I wrote a simple perl script for automatic switching of my laptop between wifi-networks. > For example, When I bring the laptop from home to my office, it realizes that the home > wifi network is no more available and looks for available networks enlisted in its > configuration file. > If a known wifi-network is found, it connects to it. > If more than one known wifi-network are found, the one with the highest priority is chosen. > Undesirable networks are easilly disabled (forgotten). > > New open and wpa networks can be easily added to the configuration file. > The entries for more sophisticated enterprise networks should be manually added to the configuration file > in /etc/wpa_supplicant/ > > The script also switches between usual (client) wifi mode, and (server) ad-hoc wifi network mode > with dhcp, ssh, and ftp servers. I sometimes use adhoc wifi mode > with ftp-server to transfer the files from/to the smartphone. > > For now the script has working icewm interface. > The emacs (elisp) interface is being tested. > The pdmenu interface is planned. > > The web site is inactive for now, plan to use > http://chalaev.com/wifi-switcher -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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