With wifi-radar, it comes with a daemon, and an /etc/rc.d init script. As long as you can configure /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, its really very easy. I believe its python based, if im not mistaken.
cheers
edit: also works from cmdline, via that init script
]]>I'm still waiting for the new network scripts as well - and hope iphitus will get around this soon...
]]>You shouldn't be dependent on a GUI to get your stuff working (and especially not on Arch). So I think those new scritps are by far preferable to installing just another GUI tool, however good it might be .
]]>Forget about new network scripts or anything like that. Ubuntu and a number of the popular distros use NetworkManager and I have been using it under Arch and KDE with knetworkmanager. It works both for wired and wireless. So when you plugin a wired network it automatically detects that too.
Here's the Wiki entry:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager
It shows you how to use it under KDE and Gnome. As it mentions you need a combination of dhcdbd, networkmanager and hal.
P.S. Don't waste your time with wifi-radar. It's not as good of a solution as networkmanager and it only works for wireless devices.
Great, but is there a non-GUI solution? I think I may prefer the new scripts
]]>Forget about new network scripts or anything like that. Ubuntu and a number of the popular distros use NetworkManager and I have been using it under Arch and KDE with knetworkmanager. It works both for wired and wireless. So when you plugin a wired network it automatically detects that too.
Here's the Wiki entry:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager
It shows you how to use it under KDE and Gnome. As it mentions you need a combination of dhcdbd, networkmanager and hal.
P.S. Don't waste your time with wifi-radar. It's not as good of a solution as networkmanager and it only works for wireless devices.
Thanks. Very simple and effective!
]]>Here's the Wiki entry:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager
It shows you how to use it under KDE and Gnome. As it mentions you need a combination of dhcdbd, networkmanager and hal.
P.S. Don't waste your time with wifi-radar. It's not as good of a solution as networkmanager and it only works for wireless devices.
]]>Hi, I'm trying to get my laptop + arch to work so that I can walk into any hotspot and simply type "/etc/rc.d/network restart" and it will eventually connect via dhcp. First: I apologize if this issue has been beaten to death, but I swear, I did a lot of searching and can't find an obvious or clean source for this functionality.
Ubuntu can easily find a hotspot after the first installation, and the Live CD can also do this great job. But I don't know how to configure Arch to do the same job also. I am a newer to Linux, it's far more difficult for me. As I thought, if Ubuntu can then Arch also can, but how?
]]>http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts
Once these are a bit more complete, you should be able to leverage these to write a daemon to do what you would like.
James
]]>I've just set up network profiles, which work great, but so far the best method I've found for connecting to 'random' access points, like various libraries, university buildings, and coffee shops, is to scan and then manually put that ID as my 'preferred' ID into a dhcp-enabled wireless profile. I remember this being so much simpler in the other distros I used - even with gentoo it would automatically do all of this for me in a pretty straightforward fashion, so I just assumed there would be something similar available in arch. If not, would it be difficult to simply borrow part of gentoo's scripts?
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