ifconfig doesn't work on wireless networks, but assuming you mean iwconfig, well that doesn't work with WPA encryption. And neither of them is automatic.
I just wpa_supplicant, but I don't think it would work that well with switching between wireless networks while running. If you are generally shutting down your laptop between network switches then wpa_supplicant alone should work fine. On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Josh Rickmar <joshua_rick...@eumx.net>wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 03:01:24AM +0400, Ilya Ilembitov wrote: > > Hi, all.I wanted to ask for an advice. > > > > Being a laptop user, I have to swtich between wireless networks quite > frequently, and often I have to connect to the new networks. So, I am in > need of a tool that would allow me to automatize the whole routine: provide > me with a list of networks, allow me to select the one to connect, find out > the type of encryption and actually connect to it (prompting me for the > encryption key, if needed) - since I don't think that I'll be able to > memorize all the wpa_supplicant options to use it fluently (i.e. without > having to read the manpage each time I want to connect to a new network). > > > > The current options that I am aware of: > > > > 1. Networkmanager - ties a lot of dependencies and is not quite stable > > > > 2. wicd - has a ncurses flavour, I'll probably give it a try. > > > > 3. connman (that thing that is used in Moblin/Meego) - quite young and I > haven't heard much of it, and whether it could be used outside of its > original environment. Although I believe I have read somewhere that E17 > people were trying to make a EFL GUi to it, so probably it's rather > flexible. > > > > Any other options? I was hoping that someone has already come up with a > custom solution that would integrate into dwm/dmenu environment nicely. > > What's wrong with just using ifconfig? > >
