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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:07PM +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> The DHL man has just been & taken my MacBook away to have its ego |
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> stroked by professionally-trained Apple engineers. I thought in the |
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> meantime I might try living the Linux lifestyle for a few days & have |
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> (literally) dusted off my (not literarily) black & white Thinkpad. |
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> I've only used WEP so far, not wpa-supplicant, but I supposed I'd better |
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> get the latter set up. So in light of that inexperience, please forgive |
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> me if this is a dumb question, but are there any GUI wifi apps that sit |
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> in the system tray, scan and let you connect to available networks, and |
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> are also compatible with Gentoo's configuration files? |
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> Last time I used wifi under Gentoo one added the network name & |
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> encryption key to /etc/conf.d/net (or /etc/conf.d/wireless) and the |
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> network scripts did the rest. Ideally, then, I'd like a GUI that scanned |
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> for networks & added the details to the conf.d file. Is this a |
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> reasonable expectation? |
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> BTW: I prefer KDE, if this is relevant. |
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> Stroller. |
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There's network-manager, it uses it's own config files, though. |
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