wic, a wireless frontend for netcfg

taylorchu · 2012-01-28 07:44:50

I took the idea from wifi-select, but wic comes with 4 major improvements

1. wpa: wpa and open become main stream while wep is going to phrase out of the market. I dropped wep support and added wpa-eap. As you can see, my dorm only has open and wpa wifi.

2. essid collision: because my dorm has lots of wireless which have the same essid, the profile often needs to be updated in order to use. my solution is appending mac address to the end of ssid, so every id is unique.

3. awk improvement: kinda trivial but it is simpler now
4. source code clean up: i dont use tmp files in wic. it is 100% clean.

Last edited by taylorchu (2012-01-28 07:45:16)

kittykatt · 2012-01-28 12:07:05

Looks pretty cool. Might try it out on my laptop sometime.

Awebb · 2012-01-28 12:09:57

The name could lead to confusion with wicd. Good work, though.

the.ridikulus.rat · 2012-01-28 12:12:48

AUR link? source?

the.ridikulus.rat · 2012-01-28 12:14:49

Instead of forking it why don't you request the wifi-select author to merge your changes. I also live in a hostel which has lots of routers with same AP/ESSID. Thanks for the "append the mac address to the ESSID" change.

Last edited by the.ridikulus.rat (2012-01-29 06:45:35)

taylorchu · 2012-01-28 23:52:15

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56186
uploaded to aur.

@the.ridikulus.rat
around 80-90% of code is rewritten.

ninian · 2012-01-29 01:14:25

Looks interesting, but dropping WEP support is no good for me. Plenty of places still use it!

d2ogch3n · 2012-01-29 14:45:45

You need to add git as a dependency.

kittykatt · 2012-01-29 17:56:59

ninian wrote:

Looks interesting, but dropping WEP support is no good for me. Plenty of places still use it!

Gonna have to be a no-go here as well. Maybe I'll download it and try it sometime on a friend's network.

taylorchu · 2012-01-29 21:15:26

ok. i added wep support, but i cannot test it.
can anyone help to verify?

archman-cro · 2012-03-08 19:24:30

Tested with WEP and working. Thank you for this program!
Edit: Doesn't seem to want to connect to an WPA-PSK secured, AES encrypted WPA2 Access Point.
airodump says: WPA2 CCMP PSK for my network.

Any ideas? Nothing except

Mar  8 20:50:03 localhost kernel: [691487.867563] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)

in logs.

Last edited by archman-cro (2012-03-08 19:54:32)

taylorchu · 2012-03-09 08:31:38

i am waiting for the next netcfg release.
at mean while, i am looking for wpa-suppliant backend. it is much easier to detect what type of wireless you are using.

vwyodajl · 2012-03-09 21:15:23

Great work taylorchu, works fine for me and like the ease and look.

archman-cro · 2012-03-10 15:41:46

I can confirm that the 'wifi-select' program works on the described network from above.

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wic, a wireless frontend for netcfg

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