On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:46:07PM +0100, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > The DHL man has just been & taken my MacBook away to have its ego > stroked by professionally-trained Apple engineers. I thought in the > meantime I might try living the Linux lifestyle for a few days & have > (literally) dusted off my (not literarily) black & white Thinkpad. > > I've only used WEP so far, not wpa-supplicant, but I supposed I'd better > get the latter set up. So in light of that inexperience, please forgive > me if this is a dumb question, but are there any GUI wifi apps that sit > in the system tray, scan and let you connect to available networks, and > are also compatible with Gentoo's configuration files? > > Last time I used wifi under Gentoo one added the network name & > encryption key to /etc/conf.d/net (or /etc/conf.d/wireless) and the > network scripts did the rest. Ideally, then, I'd like a GUI that scanned > for networks & added the details to the conf.d file. Is this a > reasonable expectation? > > BTW: I prefer KDE, if this is relevant. > > Stroller.
There's network-manager, it uses it's own config files, though. -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR
