GUI wireless tools?
Scott I. Remick
scott at sremick.net
Wed Jan 30 11:29:19 PST 2008
One thing I've never really gotten into was using FreeBSD on a laptop. My
few attempts have met moderate success, and recently have only included
PC-BSD.
Well, I got my hands on a Dell Latitude D600 that's not currently being
used so I tried rolling my own FreeBSD 6.3 + Gnome setup on it. So far,
I've gotten everything working, and got the wireless going (I think?) via
NDIS. So now I'm into uncharted territory (at least personally).
One thing that has jumped out at me is the apparently lack of a GUI
utility for discovery of and easy-connecting to wireless access points.
Am I missing something? Other than Network Settings, which requires you
to manually enter a known SSID and so on. What do other people use?
Preferably GUI, because while I don't fear the CLI part of the point of
this laptop will be to "show it off", so eye-candy counts. Support of WEP
and WPA necessary.
Searching of FreshPorts and Google came up empty, at least for FreeBSD.
There was a promising utility called Gwireless but development seems to
have stalled. Then there's a list at http://gentoo-wiki.com/
HOWTO_Gnome_Wifi but as far as I can tell, none of those are available
ported to FreeBSD.
Any suggestions?
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