I recently purchased a ThinkPenguin Wireless USB adapter because I have a
built-in Intel wireless card to work with my Thinkpad. I've been spending
some time to get wireless up and running, and I can say with the utilities
like wpa-supplicant, iw, and ip, it's a very tedious process every time you
wanted to get your wireless network up and running. I think we should get a
wireless network manager, and I do not recommend NetworkManager since it
has a dependency on systemd and we don't have that. I would recommend wicd,
except that its development it practically dried up, but it's still usable,
I don't know of any other network managers, but maybe we should look into
it.