On 2013-07-11 10:37, Tim Connors wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
Is there a good Debian package for managing Wifi access? Adding an entry to /etc/network/interfaces is OK if you only have one ESSID. But if you are going to connect to one of several phones, a home Wifi, McDonalds, and others then it becomes tiring to edit that file.
I'd like something that allows a laptop to do the same things as an Android phone. To just automatically connect to a Wifi network that's in range. Ideally it would do it whenever there's no link on the Ethernet port.
In order of preference[0], wicd, wifi-radar, network-manager.
[0] not mine -- I mostly have predictable ESSIDs, so I do <http://cyber.com.au/~twb/snarf/wifi.txt>. But it seems to be the preference order of everybody I talk to about it.
Where's wpa-roam-default-iface documented? My google fue is failing me today.
[...] /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/README.modes.gz. "3. Mode #2: Roaming Mode" -- Regards, Matthew Cengia