Hi [vie, 21 abr 2006 16:45:47 -0400] - Andrew Schulman: > > I think, one day, network manager will be the way to go. For now, I'll have > > to rely on ifplugd and whereami. > > Whew. Linux for desktops and laptops has made enormous strides, but this is > one area where it lags badly. The range of tools-- ifplugd, whereami, > waproamd, wpasupplicant, network-manager, all of the wireless tools, and > others that I can't even remember now-- and their interactions is simply > baffling to me, and I'm a long-time Debian user with a moderate to high > tolerance for complexity. > > There are things in Linux (like network servers) that I like to tinker with > and get just right, and then there are things (like sound) that I don't care > how they work, I just want them to work. WLAN association is in the latter > category. I have to say that Microsoft has really done an excellent job > with their taskbar applet for WLANs in XP SP2. It's easy to set up, and > once it's set up it mostly just works without any intervention. For managing wireless NICs maybe you'll find SWScanner [1] usefull. It has a wider range of functions but among them it allows you to easily search, store, asociate, deasociate and configure wireless networks. Anyway, network-manager looks _very_ promising :-) > Fortunately, looking at the current ferment in open source tools in this > area, I predict that in about one year, we'll have a good set of easy-to-use > tools for moving between WLANs with a laptop. Linux will catch up. [1] http://www.swscanner.org > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- ___________________________________________________________________ Iván Forcada Atienza: correo: ivan@swscanner.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Software is like sex: it's better when it's free" (Linus Torvalds)
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