On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:12 AM, DJA wrote:
You would not explicitly use it unless you use WPA or WPA2 on your access point. If you use NetworkManager, then you use it without knowing it. Eventually, all Wifi connections invoked via either the KDE or Gnome GUI's (and probably others) will also use it to do much of the heavy lifting.
This, sadly, is not immediately useful to those who run neither GNOME nor KDE, or exist only in console-land. In such cases, knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes is quite useful.
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