RE: [SLUG] wifi manager

From: Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 17:09:07 EDT


Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:48:48 -0400> From: eben01@verizon.net
> Subject: [SLUG] wifi manager
> To: slug@nks.net
>
> Can someone recommend a halfway decent wifi manager? School has two
> networks (one has WPA, both have no WEP), and home has one (with WEP, no
> WPA). All use DHCP. I can't get my laptop to use the one with no WEP, and
> I have no earthly idea how to enable WPA.
>
> It doesn't need to be GUI, and it doesn't need to switch seamlessly
> (although that would be nice), as long as it works with Ubuntu.
> . . .

I suggest that you try out network-manager[1].

It has been installed by default in Ubuntu since version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) and it has been in the official repositories since Dapper.

Jonathon

[1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
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