On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:16:08 +0100 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Easynetaid/netbarx is an option, preferably when it is available > from the repo. In the mean time, wpagui is working fine, as from many > years - I use wpa_gui every time I take one of my laptops on the road, and I get it to work, but I wouldn't call its functionality "working fine." First of all, its human interface is ridiculous. Instead of conversing with the human at human level and translating for wpa_supplicant, it converses with wpa_supplicant at wpa_supplicant level and makes the human translate. The thing where you have to go to another tab, press scan, press scan again, doubleclick, remember the number of the new network, go back to the first tab, select it, and wait for your IP address (or not) is ridiculous. Then there's the poor documentation of the whole wpa_* line of software: Few know how it works. Then add in dhcpcd, Ugh! > I always wondered why there existed network-manager at all For the reasons I enumerated above. I don't use NetworkManager because it's too much baggage, but I have to admit, its human-engineering is spectacular **on a window manager with a panel**. > and I used to purge it right after install. wpagui is developped by > the authors of wpa-supplicant. It takes a little editing of > wpa-supplicant.conf and interfaces to start, but there are pretty > good howtos (search for something like "wifi roaming with wpa > supplicant") This is good information. Thank you, I'll search. And if I can't get wpa_gui to work in a reasonable way, eventually I'll build a state machine that interacts with wpa_cli correctly, taking its cues and reporting its info to a GUI I write that looks a heck of a lot like NetworkManager (but has only dependencies wpa_supplicant, wpa_cli, and Python Tkinter. SteveT Steve Litt February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng