Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:53:06 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI wireless tools? Message-ID: <fot0vi$5d2$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20080130194817.GA1216@localhost> References: <pan.2008.01.30.19.29.06@sremick.net> <20080130194817.GA1216@localhost>
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Chess Griffin wrote: > * Scott I. Remick <scott@sremick.net> [2008-01-30 19:29:07]: > >> 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. >> > > For now, I just use command line tools. > > However, maybe there is something on the horizon. There is a really > nice Python based GUI application for managing wired and wireless > networks called 'Wicd' (http://wicd.sourceforge.net). It supports > WEP, WPA, and most other things you'd expect. It is similar to the > GNOME Network Manager found on Linux, but much better in many ways. > It is basically a GUI front end to standard command line tools to > manage networks. It works very well in Linux and I have tested it on > Slackware and Arch Linux. > > The bad news is that currently there are lots of Linuxisms in this > application. It calls the Linux command line tools and options that > are not the same as in FreeBSD. It also installs in /opt. :/ > > Anyway, I contacted the developer several months ago and asked him > whether he'd be open to making his application more OS agnositc and he > was very interested and willing. He said the current SVN version, > which I have not tried, makes major changes to how the application is > configured and used, and seemed to indicate that one would be able to > manually choose which CLI Wicd uses, as well as where it gets > installed. In short, he seemed like he would like to make his > application work on FreeBSD. I offered to help test/debug and write > patches where I can (my Python skills are not that strong, though) and > he said he'd get back in touch with me once development on his next > stable branch occurs. > > So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I think this application has lots > of promise. > > Chess > The application seems very promising. Please keep in touch with its development and please inform us about its progress. Thanks! M.help
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