Hello,
I want to have a network center that can do mainly 2 things:
1- When I plug in the network cable I want to know that a cable is connected, and I do not have to wait until it fetches the IP addresses from the DHCP. ie: I do not to wait nearly 10 seconds to know that the cable is connected

2- I want the Network Center to connect to any open wireless network available so if I open the laptop at home I do not have to manually connect it and when I move to a place with a another network I get connected automatically, and also the feedback that the computer is doing something is important.

mainly I want feedback and automatic discovery and connection other networks so I do not press connect and do something else and then after a while I say: "It failed last time so lets try again" or "I have to check the cable, it is not connected properly"

What software can I use to solve this issue?

Thanks,
Ahmad.

Sounds like ifplug?


As far as I know that just depends on what auth the network does, if you're authorised to use it and how networking and wpa_supplicant is configured. I think saying "I want" isn't gonna help: you just have to configure things properly.

ifplug is already installed by Mandriva
Have you seen Suse 10.3?
when you plug in the cable the Network manager in the taskbar changes to a gear moving around until the IP addresses are retrieved from the DHCP I would like to have something like that

Thank you very much for your reply unSpawn,
but, What if there is no Authentication needed for access, shouldn't I get connected. Because it just happens in windows whenever there is an open network it just connects.
and if I supplied the password before shouldn't it connect the next time the network is available

I do not want to be annoying but those are some options that I want to have in my desktop so, Is there any way that I can get them?

Thanks

If you have access to SuSE then you have the means to figure it out. I haven't got a bastard clue how they do that.


If your machine is configured to recognise that network or if there's a "default" setting for connecting to open networks, then yes, that should work. If a particular network uses WPA-PSK or WPA2, then if your network auth is so configured and the key hasn't changed, then you should be able to reconnect again w/o providing passwords. For both it still means you have to configure it.