Wireless network control

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +0000, Ricardo Jesus wrote:
> Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> > 
> > I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this.
> >  
> >  
> > currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the
> > wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real
> > connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the
> > wpa-supplicant to set that up, but if i go out and about and hit free wifi
> > spots, I have to add the info for them into the wpa-supplicant.conf file
> > to get it to access it.
> >  
> > keep in mind that ideally I use the latest gnome as my desktop. is there
> > an easier tool to do this all with?

Have a look at http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr
It is in ports; see /usr/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr

Roland
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