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jamtat

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 229

wifi connection managers; recommendations?

I prefer CLI or curses-based network managers. In the past I used wicd-cli but started having problems with it taking over my wired connection (it wanted to assign it an IP, whether it was hooked to a cable or not). So I kept looking around and finally found wifi-menu, with which I've been quite happy. But now wifi-menu is no longer in Arch and I'm going to have to find an alternative on the installation of Arch I've got on this laptop (2 or 3 years old now).

I prefer the semi-automated function of curses clients as opposed to doing networking directly from the command line--though I've done plenty of the latter. Can anyone offer, in light of the above, recommendations for a replacement wifi connection manager?

Thanks

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 415

Re: wifi connection managers; recommendations?

I haven't really used it so I cannot comment, but NetworkManager comes with nmcli, a simple command-line cliente to interact with it. I am not sure if it allows full control over NetworkManager, though.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,353

Re: wifi connection managers; recommendations?

...But now wifi-menu is no longer in Arch and I'm going to have to find an alternative on the installation of Arch I've got on this laptop (2 or 3 years old now)....

ewaller$@$odin ~ [1]1005 %pacman -Qo wifi-menu
/usr/bin/wifi-menu is owned by netctl 1.9-1
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1006 %

???

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