Connect to wlan on the commandline :-)

WernerL · 2008-01-01 11:41:12

Hello guys,

On my laptop I installed archlinux because I just loved to work with it on my pc. :-) Now I chose to use e17 as window manager on my laptop. I did the complete installation with a wired network config... but now I wan't to get my wlan to work so I installed ndiswrapper, downloaded the driver from the acer website and installed it (did this before with another distro and it went fine). but e17 doesn't have a graphical program by default for connecting to wireless networks. So does anyone have any suggestions? How to do it on the commandline, or is there any graphical program to do this task?

schivmeister · 2008-01-01 12:08:07

Of course, without the basic scripts there wouldn't exist any GUI. http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/Lin … mmands.htm For WPA you will need wpa_supplicant. All info is available in wiki

WernerL · 2008-01-01 12:52:17

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa … nt#WPA_GUI

yeah, I almost forgot why I installed windows back on my laptop.. Isn't there just one simpel graphical program that does the job for me?
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A year ago or something I had one small wizard like program that let me connect to a wireless network. Totally forgot the name of it..

tomk · 2008-01-01 13:16:45

networkmanager, wifi-radar, wicd... there are others too, I think.

Personally, I think GUI is overkill for this, so I use netcfg2.

iphitus · 2008-01-01 13:50:45

tomk wrote:

networkmanager, wifi-radar, wicd... there are others too, I think.
Personally, I think GUI is overkill for this, so I use netcfg2.

cue netcfg2 link: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39505

schivmeister · 2008-01-01 14:31:21

I suppose you'd want an "all-in-one" GUI, so choices could be http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd E17 is only a WM, far away from a DE, so there aren't much DE-specific apps for E I'd guess.

Anyway, if you'd rather use GUI, you could bear with minor integration issues on the programs' side, no? After all, RAM and HDD have decreased in price and increased in size.

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#1 2008-01-01 11:41:12

Connect to wlan on the commandline :-)

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Re: Connect to wlan on the commandline :-)

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