Jürg Billeter wrote: > For laptops switching networks a graphical configuration tool is highly > desirable, too. NetworkManager[2] is a nice system; it'd need a bit of > work to add that to BLFS, though, and it's still a work in progress, not > everything is configurable yet. I've written a wireless-applet[3] for > GNOME some time ago, that's just a very simple frontend to configure > wpa_supplicant but useful if you just want to easily get connected to > non-encrypted and WEP/WPA-PSK wireless networks. > > There are graphical configuration tools for KDE, too, of course, don't > know whether they support WPA, though. KNetworkManager, a NetworkManager > frontend, supports that, AFAIK.
> [1] http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ > [2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ > [3] http://www.bitron.ch/software/wireless-applet.php This is very good info. Thanks. I took a look at kdenetwork and as a minimum, we need to add wireless-tools to the book and list them as an optional dependency for kdenetwork. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
