Setting up wireless networking on a Toshiba NB205....

[creighto]

I'm still setting up my new-to-me old laptop, and I need some recommendations on what to use for a wireless connection daemon. I've gotten X running, with Blackbox as my window manager. What I need is something that I can set up once to autoconnect to various hotspots as I approach, that also will allow me to connect to a new hotspot fairly quickly. Bonus if it survives a hibernation well. I currently have a lot of KDE stuff available on this laptop, but I prefer the command line/ncurses and top says that KDE consumes about 80 megs of memory just waiting, so I may not keep KDE around.

So, any suggestions? What does the community here prefer?

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I emerged wicd and tried that, but I get some kind of error and the graphical never shows up. So I tried it with wicd-curses and it also failed.

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[creighto]

I don't know why after all these reboots, but as I was trying to get dchpcd working, I noticed that wicd and wicd-monitor were both running processes showing up in top. So I tried wicd-curses again in an xterm, and it worked. And it allowed me to connect to my cellphone via wifi 'tethering' to do some emerges without rebooting back into the install instance. So this is technically solved, sort of. But I did notice another quirk. After choosing a wifi hotspot to connect to, wicd-curses crashes, but the connection works and persists; so the crash does no harm that I can tell. Still, that's weird behavior.