On Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:49:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:39:12 BST Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:05:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > > > > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and > > > > user > > > > preferences, some more polished than others. > > > > > > Hm. I haven't found one for iwd yet... > > > > There is net-wireless/iwgtk in portage. Other GUI applications exist > > (idwgui, dmenu-iwd-gui), plus the general GUI front ends of networkmanager > > and connman. > > Of course, I found iwgtk a minute after sending that last. Network Manager > is what I'm trying to avoid, mostly because it makes a mess of my existing > wired LAN with its static addresses. I may have to revisit that whole > setup.
If you are using the netifrc script for your wired ethernet, you can add to your /etc/conf.d/net the wireless part and call upon wpa_supplicant or iwd to manage association and authentication with your AP. For a laptop, when using different APs, you can use wpa_supplicant or iwd with dhcpcd without using netifrc. Then use wpa_gui or iwgtk to select preferred APs and to enter your credentials. There are a number of combinations and permutations with the above tools to try out and see what suits. I have never used networkmanager unless it comes as the default software with a binary distro. Thankfully Gentoo offers a lot of choice and flexibility.
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