[ltp] Re: New T61 :) Wireless manager question, and wireless question.

[Daniel Pittman]

Ben Pearre <bwpearre@gmail.com> writes:

> Many thanks to all of you who set my mind somewhat at rest regarding
> the new T61.  It arrived yesterday.  A more full review will follow,
> but so far I have just one or two questions, about wireless:
>
> 1) For years I've been using a hacked-together set of scripts for
>    wireless, in which I scan and then associate to a network based on
>    the scan results, optionally with an encryption key.  That worked
>    well, but it is tedious and could easily be automated.  I'm
>    assuming that by now it is, multiple times.  I've tried
>    kwifimanager (it doesn't work, but see (2)).  What else is out
>    there?  What has the functionality I describe?  What do you like?

What you want in 'NetworkManager', along with the 'knetworkmanager'
package to provide the GUI applet for KDE.

That is the current "blessed" option for desktop networking under
Ubuntu, and in general since it comes from GNOME and RHEL derived stuff.

Regards,
        Daniel