On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 05:18:59PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Ludovic Court??s writes: > > > Now, as someone who doesn???t use GNOME, I wonder if NM would work well > > for me. Last time I tried it???s CLI was too low-level to be usable, and > > I don???t remember seeing a curses interface. Suggestions? > > I would welcome some improvement here, or insight on my part. Since I > moved away from desktop environments, wicd has not not worked for me and > I have been using ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and dhclient manually. That > has removed my dependency on something like NM and it's apparent > inherent magic...but it's rather painful.
I actually prefer doing it this way. wpa_supplicant with multiple config files is the way when you travel a lot. No confusion between phone tethering, eduroam and multiple wifi networks. Until these NM tools start offering profiles... And general connecting is faster too. Pj.
