Package: wifi-switcher Severity: ITP License: GPL Section: net
Motivation: I think that network-manager and wicd duplicate functionality of reliable command line tools like wpasupplicant and hostapd. Following idea http://jamhed.dreamwidth.org/82198.html I wrote a simple perl script for automatic switching of my laptop between wifi-networks. For example, When I bring the laptop from home to my office, it realizes that the home wifi network is no more available and looks for available networks enlisted in its configuration file. If a known wifi-network is found, it connects to it. If more than one known wifi-network are found, the one with the highest priority is chosen. Undesirable networks are easilly disabled (forgotten). New open and wpa networks can be easily added to the configuration file. The entries for more sophisticated enterprise networks should be manually added to the configuration file in /etc/wpa_supplicant/ The script also switches between usual (client) wifi mode, and (server) ad-hoc wifi network mode with dhcp, ssh, and ftp servers. I sometimes use adhoc wifi mode with ftp-server to transfer the files from/to the smartphone. For now the script has working icewm interface. The emacs (elisp) interface is being tested. The pdmenu interface is planned. The web site is inactive for now, plan to use http://chalaev.com/wifi-switcher
