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. I actually had to add a café AP the other day, so I just did wpa_cli scan # wait a bit wpa_cli scan_results # look for an open AP # add it to list with key_mgmt=NONE I haven't bothered to sort out something that's smart enough to toggle wifi on and off when the ethernet loses sync, but that OUGHT to be a matter of hooking into the eth0 post-up/down in network(5) -- although you probably need allow-hotplug, which stupid ubuntu doesn't support AT ALL (at least on GUIless systems), rant rant.