Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

[Indi]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:47:18 -0400
covici@××××××××××.com wrote:

>
> 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?
>

No, I've tested wicd in openbox, wmaker, and fluxbox, and also from the
console using ncurses -- no G or K stuff required.

It is true, however, that wicd can only use one interface at a time,
which is the only reason I don't use it.

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