On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 23:45, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:18 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > > Are there any real-world network profiles which cannot be detected? My > > laptop brings eth0 (built-in ethernet) up when I plug a wire in and > > performs ARP pings to detect where it is, configuring itself and > > resetting various applications on demand. This is done by > > ifplugd/guessnet/resolvconf and works very well. > > I typically only use wireless. All of the networks I connect to use a > different WEP key. The difference between my profiles is basically a > different essid and WEP key.
I use 'waproamd' for that. Works like a charm! You can even use it to set up vpn tunnels on demand... > > I suppose it would be possible to cycle through all the different keys > and see if a connection to the given network is established, but I have > no idea how practical that is. In some cases, (actually a lot of cases > around here, where everybody seems to have a wireless AP) multiple > networks might be available and you want to pick a specific one. > > The goal, as much as I hate to say it, would be something very similar > to Windows XP's wireless networking configuration tool. Linux wlan > drivers seem to lack support for network scanning in a lot of instances > though. Also, some mechanism needs to be put in place to allow the user > to select network settings without needing to enter a password, there > could be multiple levels of security from "connect to any network you > please" to "connect to any network you please as long as it is one of > the following pre-configured choices" Indeed it would be very nice to have tools that help a non-linux savy person to configure these network facilities (like waproamd and friends). regards, Andreas --
