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Hi A while ago I read a thread on good gui networkmanagers but now I can't seem to find it. I know there are problems installing knetworkmanager. Could someone suggest a good working network manager gui?
I will admit for my laptop, slackware 12.1 and xfce I felt the lack of a gui network manager quite badly. Particularly when 'on the road' I did not want to be messing around with /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf every time I came upon a wireless hotspot or plugged into a strange wired network.
This showed me 2 shortcomings:
My own lack of skills in utilising the slackware networking tools while on the road. These tools are more than adequate for this but perhaps I am a little lazy?
The lack of a decent graphical network manager shipped with xfce: understandable as xfce by its nature is a little minimal.
I cannot answer for kde as I am not a big fan and I was not willing to use kde programs while running xfce but certainly the answer for me was wicd and specifically the slackbuild script put together by Rob Workman on slackbuilds.org:
Thanks rob for this :-). wicd has operated 100% flawlessly on this laptop and been the last small hurdle in running 12.1 well on a Latitude D520 with a Broadcom 4312 (rev 01) wireless chip.
I use Wireless Assistant for my network needs. It runs on KDE and has a nice and easy GUI. Just download the Slack package and run "installpkg wlassitant-0.5.7-i386-1.tgz" in konsole. You then can run wlassistant from Konsole or go to the internet option in the K menu. You can find it here: http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net/
The Wicd devs are working on a cli client for it too, in case anyone's interested. You'll have to build the svn trunk (it's 1.5.x ++ code), and the wicd-cli is a branch in the svn checkout.
I've not actually messed with it too much yet, but I think it's functional right now...
Thanks for your wicd package, it's really a very usefull tool! :-)
It would be nice if it had a Qt/KDE interface. Maybe I should just make one, if I have time...
I will admit for my laptop, slackware 12.1 and xfce I felt the lack of a gui network manager quite badly. Particularly when 'on the road' I did not want to be messing around with /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf every time I came upon a wireless hotspot or plugged into a strange wired network.
This showed me 2 shortcomings:
My own lack of skills in utilising the slackware networking tools while on the road. These tools are more than adequate for this but perhaps I am a little lazy?
The lack of a decent graphical network manager shipped with xfce: understandable as xfce by its nature is a little minimal.
I cannot answer for kde as I am not a big fan and I was not willing to use kde programs while running xfce but certainly the answer for me was wicd and specifically the slackbuild script put together by Rob Workman on slackbuilds.org:
Thanks rob for this :-). wicd has operated 100% flawlessly on this laptop and been the last small hurdle in running 12.1 well on a Latitude D520 with a Broadcom 4312 (rev 01) wireless chip.
That was the long answer. The short answer: wicd.
Andrew
what about the newer 12.2 cos that is what is on my laptop
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