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On Monday, 21 December 2020 13:21:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Afternoon all, |
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> I'm reviving a somewhat elderly Thinkpad T61, installing from scratch after |
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> wiping out the old Windows XP setup. It has an Intel core-2 CPU. |
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> What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is |
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> wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I |
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> think I remember something like wicd being better. |
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The best way to get it going is to add the necessary driver + firmware, then |
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use whichever front end you find easiest for you to manage associations and |
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authentication mechanisms and passphrases with various APs. |
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There's networkmanager, invariably dragged in by all big DEs these days, so |
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you can enable this if you are running KDE/Gnome. A simpler application is |
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connman. I always used wpa_supplicant and whenever I need a GUI I use wpa_cli |
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with its GUI - but it can also be run on the CLI. |
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From what I know wicd has been abandonware for years now. There may be other |
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applications offering the same function, it would be interesting to read what |
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others are using. |
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