looking for wlan-manager

littlemidget · 03-15-2005, 02:24 PM

I was wondering if anything like this excists for Debian. What I mean is a nice little app that lets you choose which wlan to connect to (like the one you have in windows). I'm getting tired of having to change /etc/network/interfaces everytime I go to school / come home.

ironwalker · 03-15-2005, 02:44 PM

What wireless card do you have?

there are a few wlan managers in debians package cache.

Could always make home eth1 and school eth2 and make static config entries.

Anyway,
apt-cache search wireless comes up with everything related to wireless.Guessnet and wireless-tools,waproamd are but a few that may work.

littlemidget · 03-15-2005, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ironwalker
What wireless card do you have?

there are a few wlan managers in debians package cache.

Could always make home eth1 and school eth2 and make static config entries.

Anyway,
apt-cache search wireless comes up with everything related to wireless.Guessnet and wireless-tools,waproamd are but a few that may work.

This is my wireless card: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC

Making eth1 and eth2 wouldn't do much good. There are lots of open lans around my school -- and I want to choose which one to connect to :)
I will try to use some of the apps that you just mentioned, and I'll be back with results. Thanks :)

edit: I just installed waproamd, and it's working just fine. It found my own wireless lan -- and connected to it aswell (the key and essid and so on are specified in /etc/network/interfaces).