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bsander
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 Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: Some wireless usability questions.. |
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Hey everyone,
Using linux on my laptop, I'm trying to set up my wireless capabilities in an easy-to-use way on KDE and I'm having some issues.
I have the luxury of living in an area with quite some wireless networks for me to connect to. Also on my university there are multiple networks that I should be able to connect to. Now this is all great, but to connect to a network I need a root console and do | Code: | # iwlist scan
# iwconfig eth1 essid network-name
# /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart |
Now I know about kwifimanager, waveselect and some other apps to do most of this for me, but 1) I still need root privileges for those to work correctly and 2) I still need to restart net.eth1 to receive a new IP address when I switch networks.
So about 1): What's the best thing to do here? Is there a way to circumvent root privileges for this? Should I become a member of a certain group? Should I suid the needed tools (iwlist? iwconfig? iw*? ifconfig? dhcpcd? /etc/init.d/net.eth1?) Any other suggestions? And is there a way to not have to restart net.eth1 all the time when I switch networks? I've seen that on OSX switching networks is a two-click task. How near can I get to that on linux?
Also, on my university, On some networks a rather sophisticated authentication method is used. I'm no guru in this area so it hardly makes any sense to me but I caught the terms certificate, TTLS and PAP. With help from these forums and the ipw2100 mailinglist I (barely) managed to get it working using xsupplicant. There were still problems, like not being able to reconnect after I got out of the associated accesspoint's reach. It also required me to execute quite a lot of initialization commands. This was with xsupplicant 0.8. After xsupplicant 1 got stable on x86, it failed to parse my .conf file and I haven't got it working yet. I'm considering using wpa_supplicant since it looks a little simpler, but here too, is there any way for me to simplify these processes? (Yes, I could throw everything in a shellscript, for which I would again need root privileges, but I'd rather have some GUI for this if it's available)
So basically, I can manage but I'd like it to work a little more smooth. I'm looking for tips, hints, or just general opinions on the usability of wireless networking on linux as a whole and, more specifically, KDE. How do you guys make connecting to your networks easier? |
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bsander
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Nobody has anything that might help me with this?  |
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r.abbott
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Location: Herat, Afghanistan
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I'm trying to connect to a network with TTLS and PAP authentication. Any chance you could post your xsupplicant.conf and any other advice I might need to get going? I have had my system working with a PEAP authentication before.
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