On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd. > > > > Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in > > effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average > > user for years now. It's a real shame that this isn't promoted more in > > the gentoo handbook and/or the Wifi guide. > > > > I added a patch to the wifi guide a while back, but I really find the > > gentoo documentation workflow so over-burdening that I usually work on > > gentoo-wiki instead. It's pretty dispiriting to see people using > > troublesome tools when there's better ways out there :( > > If I am correct, wic only works if you have gnome -- what if you have a > server or a computer without gnome or kde? >
The homepage says that a GUI is not needed, one can use wicd-curses to manage things interactively. That said, servers really shouldn't have any wlan* interface. Especially enterprise-y ones. For servers, init.d hacking should be more suitable. Rgds,
