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Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager



On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 19:17 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:
> eduroam-open, which is open and very restricted
> eduroam, which requires authentication and is less restricted.

> 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager
> here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how
> to
> switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager.

You can either (i) use wpa_supplicant directly (this has already been
noted in the thread) or (ii) use wicd.

I would encourage you to try wicd and switch to wpa_supplicant in
roaming mode if you are not happy. It works perfectly with eduroam and
provides a ncurses as well as a gtk gui.
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