Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 20:29:42 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WLAN configuration GUI Message-ID: <20170403182942.GA2174@c720-r314251> In-Reply-To: <20170403182117.GA1732@c720-r314251> References: <20170403200622.754efbbf.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170403182117.GA1732@c720-r314251>
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El día lunes, abril 03, 2017 a las 08:06:22p. m. +0200, Polytropon escribió: > I'm interested in setting up a GUI frontend for WLAN configuration. > In the ports collection, there are wpa_gui and wifimgr. What are > the required steps to get at least one of them working? > > I can get WLAN working manually as described here: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-wireless.html > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/wireless.html > > As expected, for a "statically set-up" WLAN access this works fine. > But I'm essentially missing a kind of "this is a list of the > currently present WLANs, which one to connect to" + asking for > access credentials. I'm not even sure the programs mentioned > above will do that because I've never seen one working... ;-) I run 12-CURRENT with very recent ports and I'm posting below a screen of wpa_gui from the ports, which I do not use (I'm used to edit the file wpa_supplicant.conf), but it seems that it is able at least to scan for networks not defined in my file (the upper screen shows SSID from my file to choose from). Just give it a try. http://www.unixarea.de/wpa_gui.png matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045 Aus "Nie wieder Krieg!" wurde "Nie wieder Krieg ohne Deutschlands Truppen" The "No wars anymore!" changed now to "No wars anymore without German battle groups!" El "¡Nunca jamás guerra!" ha cambiado a "¡Nunca jamás guerra sin tropas alemanas!"
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