Re: Wireless network control (applet) for xfce4

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:49:45 -0500
Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:27:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I am looking for an easy way to control my wireless (and wired) network for
> > xfce4.
> >
> > I am currently using wlassistant, but it doesn't allow automatic connection
> > (less important) and it has problems connecting to a wpa network, it
> > attempts to connect properly but unless wpa_gui is also running in parallel
> > it will usually fail to connect for some reason.
> >
> >
>
> Do you want to control, or connect?
>
> If you want to control you can always use mapping in
> /etc/network/interfaces; But I assume you're looking for a GUI-type way.
> In that case you may be interested in nm-applet (network-manager-gnome
> is the package).
>

I want to connect, I am more comfortable with the text file doing the setup, it's just that with several wireless spots it began being a pain, and I don't have the time to play around with scripts

anyway, I installed network-manager-gnome and found a fix for the error starting up nm-applet but now I can't connect to the wap2 network at home. It seems that wpa-assistant starts up and there is an attempt to modprobe wifi0 and then the connection fails. It seems from wpa-gui that the connection is made but then dropped for some reason

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