Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Sep 27, 2011 9:57 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
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> On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> > James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote:
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> > > 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 :(
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> > 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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> The homepage says that a GUI is not needed, one can use wicd-curses to
manage things interactively.
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> That said, servers really shouldn't have any wlan* interface. Especially
enterprise-y ones.
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> For servers, init.d hacking should be more suitable.

Ah yes, the Gentoo handbook explicitly states:

Note: wicd offers a command line utility in addition to the main graphical
interface. You can get it by emerging wicd with the ncurses USE flag set.
This wicd-curses utility is particularly useful for folks who don't use a
gtk-based desktop environment, but still want an easy command line tool that
doesn't require hand-editing configuration files.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4

Rgds,