Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
Matthew Cengia <mattcen@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2013-07-09 14:37, Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 09/07/13 12:54, Russell Coker wrote:
Is there a good Debian package for managing Wifi access?
network-manager
I would've said that, but the specification was for a "good" package. I don't know that network-manager qualifies...
Its command line interface is limited; according to Debian's wiki page, you can't configure a static IP address with it (this might have changed); I know people who've inadvertently lost connectivity to remote systems by changing configuration files that network-manager was watching. Of course, if you're aware of this behaviour you can avoid the problem by ensuring that it isn't running when you edit network-related configuration files.
Last time I used it, it also refused to connect to wifi with a PSK until after I logged into a GUI -- and I think when the screensaver turned on, it turned off the wifi there as well. That made me REALLY HAPPY when I came back to find 800MB of 850MB of download still to go. Also couldn't just turn it on and SSH into it. I think that was in Ubuntu 11.10. Might be fixed by now, but I think it was "by design", because the PSK was stored in the gnome keyring.