Gui for Wifi

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:32, jim lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:16:25 -0500, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 05:07, Neil Marjoram wrote:
> > > Has anyone got a decent Gui for Wifi that an ordinary (windows) user can
> > > use?
> > >
> > > I have tried kwifimanager and it doesn't seem to work too well,
> > > particuarly with channel selection.
> > >
> > 
> > Nothing that is very good.  With FC3 I have started using
> > NetworkManager.  Of course if you need to change your WEP key you must
> > use the System Tools --> Configuration Editor to modify that if you want
> > to use a GUI type tool.  You can edit it using vi but that is not what
> > you wanted.
> > 
> > As to selecting channels the only way other than direct editing of files
> > that I have found is via the regular network GUI tool.
> > 
> > Hopefully NetworkManager will improve dramatically over the next release
> > or two.  It has great promise but needs some additional features and
> > work.
> > 
> i use Network Manager with out a problem.  As far as settings,  they
> art elisted in the Configuration of gnome
> 
> using the Configuration Editor  
> drill down to   /system/networking/wireless/networks/<name of networks
> you have connected to>
> 
> i have a article posted at fedoranews.org about network manager  
> http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/jim_lawrence/network_manager/

Actually it was your article that got me to try NetworkManager. :)

Thanks!

I find NetworkManager occasionally for some unknown reason won't connect
to my access point.  I still don't understand why the normal network
config does not connect to the AP.  NetworkManager works most of the
time but sometimes it comes back and says that the AP is not available
and it will try a different one.


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Scot L. Harris
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