On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:33:16PM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: > I'd like to manage both the wireless controller and ethernet card easily > in a GUI manager. > I have installed the related driver, it can be managed with ifconfig or > ifwconfig commands now. > I know there is a network-manager-gnome package, but I found it too > large. I'm working on xfce4 desktop, installing extra gnome libs would > be a waste of disk space. > I don't know if there is such a package on xfce desktop can do this?
What commands would you want to issue to it? Pardon my ignorance but I don't do wireless. I'd assume "up" and "down" but I don't know other than that. If it can be managed with ifconfig or ifwconfig, could you write simple scripts and add appropriate launcer buttons on a panel in Xfce? If the commands need root, you could add a command to run gksu or something first then call the script from that. Put the script in /usr/local/sbin. Granted that successes don't normally end up on debian-user, but I've heard a lot of horror stories about network-manager messing up. If you're on a laptop where your network environment changes, I think there's a package that addreses that. Best to search aptitude. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
