On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:26:52 +0000
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:


> I have to admit how much I envy you all guys. I have tried dozens of
> those automagical tools for wifi connection management, but in the end
> I always ended up using wpa_supplicant (with hand-written custom
> config files) + dhclient. There is no tool that does just "connect me
> to a wifi that I select" without forcing me, sooner or later, to do
> more work than needed with wpa_supplicant + dhclient :(
>
> Life is tough, here in the cave... :D

I've been experimenting with a wpa_supplicant daemon and wpa_cli
commands for a fair part of the day. I'm thinking perhaps I can someday
make one of those automagical tools out of wpa_cli, ip, dialog, grep,
cut, and the rest of the usual suspects. And I mean perhaps make
something that, from the human interface perspective, looks just like
NetworkManager, but is CLI (dialog) and needs no dbus, no window
manager, and no "the software that shall not be mentioned".

SteveT

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