NM alternatives for wireless

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 13:33:19 UTC 2008


On 6/19/08, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> I have a similar situation, wireless at home and at the office and at
> Wifi hotspots all over town.  To be honest, I've given up on the GUI
> clients almost completely (NM I think might be coming along, but it's
> not high on my list to try to debug since I don't use it that often) and
> have gone with some very simple BASH scripts that let me load whatever
> configuration I want when I need it.  I've never been particularly lucky
> with loading wireless interfaces on boot (one desktop being the
> exception, it works perfectly) and load them as I need them.
>
> Granted it's not as user friendly, but it's simple, it works
> consistently for me and it's one less thing I have to worry about.

bash scripts are user-friendly enough as far as I'm concerned...
Would you mind sharing them with us?

Andras




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