NM alternatives for wireless

Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 22:29:07 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Andras Simon <szajmi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/19/08, Sven Winkelmann <sven.winkelmann at blue1.at> wrote:
>> that is with wicd? http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Thanks, this comes very close to what I had in mind! And it's the only
> thing besides NM that I'm able to connect to wireless APs with! It's a
> pity it's not packaged for fedora.
>
> Andras

Go read the source code and you'll see why its not packaged with
Fedora.  It may work for some users, but it is a thorough hodge-podge
and packaging with with rpm is a peculiar task.

I think you should take a calm breath and figure why NM does not work
for you.  I was an NM hater, but have now found it works 100% of the
time on routers that allow DHCP (not static IP wire, but DHCP wire is
OK too).

If you don't run gnome, as I often don't, you should start the network
manager applet with a script like so:


$ cat bin/my-nm-applet
eval "`gnome-keyring-daemon`"
export GNOME_KEYRING_PID
export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET
rm nohup.out
nohup nm-applet &
# kill $GNOME_KEYRING_PID


Of course, before you do that, make absolutely sure that the "network"
service is OFF, wpa_supplicant must be OFF, and NetworkManager must be
ON.

pj



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