Jürg Billeter wrote:
On Don, 2006-03-23 at 22:48 -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
All you really need is the wireless_tools package -
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html.
That's for very basic network setup only. Many wireless networks use WPA
nowadays and that can't be configured with wireless_tools, you need
wpa_supplicant[1] to do that.
For laptops switching networks a graphical configuration tool is highly
desirable, too. NetworkManager[2] is a nice system; it'd need a bit of
work to add that to BLFS, though, and it's still a work in progress, not
everything is configurable yet. I've written a wireless-applet[3] for
GNOME some time ago, that's just a very simple frontend to configure
wpa_supplicant but useful if you just want to easily get connected to
non-encrypted and WEP/WPA-PSK wireless networks.
There are graphical configuration tools for KDE, too, of course, don't
know whether they support WPA, though. KNetworkManager, a NetworkManager
frontend, supports that, AFAIK.
Regards,
Jürg
There is also an LFS hint for using WPA -
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/wpa-dhcpcd.txt -
though I don't use WPA myself so I don't know how well the hint works. I
guess perhaps a page in BLFS for installing wireless_tools, another for
wpa_supplicant, and a third for configuration.
[1] http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
[3] http://www.bitron.ch/software/wireless-applet.php
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