[ltp] Managing network connections

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:36:55 -0400


Greg Kimberly wrote:
> This discusion of the "best distro" reminds me of my main issue in
> running linux my T41 - managing network connections. I'm dual booting
> into Suse and haven't found a good tool for managing network connections
> - especially constantly changing WiFi ones.  (A Suse rep at OSCon this
> month could only suggest using Yast to remove the wifi adapter and then
> adding it in again with a new WEP key - not ideal.)
> 
> What are folks using? In there any tool out there akin to the IBM
> connections manager?

What I have done, is replaced the config files for wifi etc., and also
used profiles, to switch between ethernet and wifi.  However, I've
recently been looking at netGo, which looks promising.