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loh.tar

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Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 49

wpaCute - A graphical wpa_supplicant front end

Hello!

I have done a fork from the official wpa_gui

  - Runs in the background to display the Wi-Fi status icon in the system tray
  - Scan for networks and connect to them via WPS or enter the data manually
  - Change, add or remove network profiles
  - Support for many station modes, from outdated insecure up to WPA3
  - Small memory foot print, download ~300k, install ~800k, running ~10M
  - As the name suggests uses Qt, works well with Qt5, compiles with Qt6 (but looks on my box bad, not investigates further)

The one who is interested will find wpaCute in AUR and of cause on the project page. There are no screen shots, sorry, but some more text.

The Network-Guru around you may take a look at the CONTRIBUTIONS file where is an Unncertainly (yeah, damn typo) section with some questions.

Thanks, Lothar

Edit: Add features

Last edited by loh.tar (2024-03-16 06:22:03)

loh.tar

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Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 49

Re: wpaCute - A graphical wpa_supplicant front end

There is a new version with WPA3 support.

As I now have learned, eduroam is offered at universities (at least in europe) to give students access to the network. Would be nice if wpaCute fully supported this, so that you can set up a connection with just a few clicks. Unfortunately I have no idea what this looks like in practice, e.g. what flags the WiFi  has.

wpa_cli scan_results |grep <SomeSSID>|cut -f4

Whether they differ from a "normal" Personal WiFi.

On the README I also ask for support regarding the removal of old techniques like WEP. It would be nice if the gurus could comment on this. I would think that everything older than WPA2 should be removed, but maybe I'm wrong.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: wpaCute - A graphical wpa_supplicant front end

eduroam uses WPA2-enterprise /  WPA2/802.1X.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … ss#eduroam
There is a tool that can generate generate wpa_supplicant configuration files for your specific university: https://eduroam.org/configuration-assistant-tool-cat/

Last edited by progandy (2024-03-16 07:18:08)

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loh.tar

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Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 49

Re: wpaCute - A graphical wpa_supplicant front end

eduroam uses WPA2-enterprise /  WPA2/802.1X.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … ss#eduroam

Yeah, the WiKi hint pointed me to that stuff, sorry not to mention. I just didn't take a closer look at it.
So there are cases where you can't just go by the flags but you have to know other things about what kind of network it is?

There is a tool that can generate generate wpa_supplicant configuration files for your specific university: https://eduroam.org/configuration-assistant-tool-cat/

Aha, thanks, will look at it.