On 10/21/2010 10:51 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:10:19 -0500, Michael Berkowski wrote: >> On 10/21/2010 6:37 AM, greg wm wrote: >>> i recently read of a wireless network chooser that works without a >>> desktop/wm/gui, but now can't remember, what's its name? >>> >> >> Newer NetworkManager includes nmcli to manage via console or script. >> It's in Fedora 13. >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/User_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Connecting_to_the_Internet-NM_CLI.html >> >> Otherwise if not using NetworkManager, iwlist and iwconfig with >> wpa-supplicant are the old-fashioned way. > > There is also WICD. It has a cli component. > http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ > -Jeremy Yes, and WICD is probably a better choice than NetworkManager if NM isn't already deeply embedded -- WICD has fewer dependencies and better system-wide networking options. NM *had* to be controlled by the GUI in userspace until the recent introduction of nmcli. +++++++++++++++++ Michael Berkowski Minitex / MnLINK Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer University of Minnesota 612.625.8736 mjb at umn.edu PGP Public key: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~berk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc +++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101021/cff6f455/attachment.pgp