At Tue, 6 May 2008 12:42:15 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: <snip, snip> > Gentoo networking configuration is OK. It works for the most part, but > you just need something were you can quickly type a password for a > protected WPA network and it connects. Yes, you CAN edit the files by > hand and provide the information, but that just makes your net > configuration file a mess. I ended up with a pretty mess of over a > dozen networks, most of them I used only once. > > I'm all for the console and editing configuration files, but a laptop > or notebook is meant to be a fast tool to be connected everywhere, > isnt it?
Yeah, that's true. I still bite the bullet and edit wpa_supplicant.conf by hand. Add it once, and from then on, it works pretty automatically. However, when you connect to a *lot* of networks, I can imagine that this quickly gets ugly. Maybe write a script which uses something like sqlite to store your configuration? Alternatively, use the emacs outline mode to fold the lines^^ Regards, Jan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
