Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
>
> Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
> effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average
> user for years now. It's a real shame that this isn't promoted more in
> the gentoo handbook and/or the Wifi guide.
>
> I added a patch to the wifi guide a while back, but I really find the
> gentoo documentation workflow so over-burdening that I usually work on
> gentoo-wiki instead. It's pretty dispiriting to see people using
> troublesome tools when there's better ways out there :(

If I am correct, wic only works if you have gnome -- what if you have a
server or a computer without gnome or kde?

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