On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:59:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> Seriously, just use wicd, dump the rest. > > > > +1 > > Call me old-fashioned, I use wpa_supplicant. :)
Actually, I'll call you confused :) Comparing wpa_supplicant and wicd is comparing the apples to, uh, pig, I guess. wpa_supplicant provides the user-end of the WPA authentication process; wicd provides a system of managing networks. In fact, wicd calls wpa_supplicant on networks encrypted that way. It would be more proper for you to say (if it is true), that you prefer to issue the '/etc/init.d/net.something start' commands by hand. That will make you properly curmudgeonly. I was that way once. But after using one flaky network too many (it is mighty annoying to have to open a console and type '/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart' every five minutes), I've since converted to wicd too. HTH, W -- Willie W. Wong [email protected] Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
