Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-09 Thread Craig R. Skinner
On 2013-08-04 Sun 14:30 PM |, Gregor Best wrote: known wireless ESSIDs, known gateway MAC addresses and known network topologies, for example When I'm at home, my gateway is 192.168.2.1, there's a host named Zim and one named Gir and my public IP address resolves back to Unity Media. That's

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-05 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:07:29PM +0200, Mirco Richter wrote: Is there some GUI-front-end for (at least) the wlan related functionality of ifconfig? Not a GUI, but I'm using a script called wiconfig which is discussed at: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20120113172334 Currently I'm

ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread Mirco Richter
Is there some GUI-front-end for (at least) the wlan related functionality of ifconfig? (No need to argue here, about the flexability of ifconfig and the restrictions of any GUI-approach) The point is, that using OBSD as a workstation on a laptop, requires a lot of authentification at

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Mirco Richter mirco.rich...@email.de writes: Is there some GUI-front-end for (at least) the wlan related functionality of ifconfig? http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20110420080633 hints that M:tier (http://www.mtier.org/) has something of that sort, but I can't specifically

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 12:07:29PM +0200, Mirco Richter wrote: Is there some GUI-front-end for (at least) the wlan related functionality of ifconfig? (No need to argue here, about the flexability of ifconfig and the restrictions of any GUI-approach) The point is, that using OBSD as a

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread Henri Kemppainen
Doing this on the terminal is simply a waste of time and it would be rational to have a GUI for at least this subset of the full ifconfig functionality. Care to elaborate on that? What makes it slow for you on the terminal? What would a GUI need to have to be faster? Don't tell me you want

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread Gregor Best
I don't use a GUI but I hacked together a little Python script that basically calls `ifconfig wpi0 scan` to obtain a list of available networks, filters out the known ones, sorts them by priority and signal strength and then configures the one on the top of the list with ifconfig and if need be,

Re: ifconfig(8) --frontend

2013-08-04 Thread David Coppa
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: I've looked into porting network manager and wcid some time back. It's horrid. They both rely on Linux-specific features like udev so it's not trivial to port them. Maybe porting the one below could be easier: