I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses.
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey guys > > > > I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless > > i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on > > gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples > > but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 > > my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to > > connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ? > > I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it > work. NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the > correct drivers (now in the kernels by default). > > I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet > has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either > open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared > to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take > care of the conf.d/net > > ~daid --