From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 19:29:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D2616A41A for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FDDC13C4E7 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKIcT-0003qV-Bl for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:13 +0000 Received: from brist1-dhcp-2.greenmountainaccess.net ([69.54.15.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:13 +0000 Received: from scott by brist1-dhcp-2.greenmountainaccess.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org From: "Scott I. Remick" Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 24 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: brist1-dhcp-2.greenmountainaccess.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Sender: news Subject: GUI wireless tools? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:19 -0000 One thing I've never really gotten into was using FreeBSD on a laptop. My few attempts have met moderate success, and recently have only included PC-BSD. Well, I got my hands on a Dell Latitude D600 that's not currently being used so I tried rolling my own FreeBSD 6.3 + Gnome setup on it. So far, I've gotten everything working, and got the wireless going (I think?) via NDIS. So now I'm into uncharted territory (at least personally). One thing that has jumped out at me is the apparently lack of a GUI utility for discovery of and easy-connecting to wireless access points. Am I missing something? Other than Network Settings, which requires you to manually enter a known SSID and so on. What do other people use? Preferably GUI, because while I don't fear the CLI part of the point of this laptop will be to "show it off", so eye-candy counts. Support of WEP and WPA necessary. Searching of FreshPorts and Google came up empty, at least for FreeBSD. There was a promising utility called Gwireless but development seems to have stalled. Then there's a list at http://gentoo-wiki.com/ HOWTO_Gnome_Wifi but as far as I can tell, none of those are available ported to FreeBSD. Any suggestions?