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I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time |
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now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a |
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LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. |
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I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some |
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stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using |
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ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for |
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the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, |
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allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but |
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once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It |
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seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix |
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would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in |
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portage anymore, so I quit. |
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Next I tried some gtk stuff, scripting stuff, gosh, so many. |
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End up with WICD, wich for the most part works fine. I didn't have the |
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time to check why the heck it tries to connect to "None" more often |
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then it tries with the SSID I"m telling it to (maybe some |
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configuration file lost in the way), but anyway, change driver from |
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"ndiswrapper" or "wext" and it eventually works. |
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What are you guys using? I"m accepting suggestions! |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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