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What wifi tool do you use?

post #1 of 16
2/4/06 at 10:55pm
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well, since i've come to the conclusion that KWifiManager sux, so i was wondering what you guys use to manage your wifi. wpa_supplicant? madwifi?

what do you guys use and why?
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post #2 of 16
2/4/06 at 11:24pm
dude.....those tools are all different for different tasks.

kwifi is just a gui to see what card is on and what signals its picking up

if i am not mistaken wpa_supplicant is required to have WEP and WPA incriptions.

madwifi is nothing more than a set of drivers for atheros.

so anyway.

my drivers are the latest madwifi from svn. my manager is wifi-radar, a pretty cool gtk-based tool that lets you manage your networks quite well.
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post #3 of 16
2/5/06 at 12:47am
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ahha, so thats why i dind't know what was goin on with my wireless
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post #4 of 16
2/5/06 at 12:51am
I just use iwconfig and wlanconfig for atheros cards.
GUI's are too complicated
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post #5 of 16
2/5/06 at 7:24pm
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i just start doin that, cause i keep getting the wrong network at home, and i need to switch it. I really want to get the GUI stuff, because a long term goal of mine is to create a distro based of ubuntu or gentoo that can be for the average best buy computer user, ie ALL gui, NO command line.....and then put M$ out of business
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post #6 of 16
2/5/06 at 7:36pm
haha...nice plan.

anyway, wifi-radar is by far one of the best tools i've found.
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post #7 of 16
2/5/06 at 9:54pm
what are you tring to do ?

wpa supplicant.conf is for WPA only
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post #8 of 16
2/6/06 at 7:38am
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Originally Posted by DimGR
what are you tring to do ?

wpa supplicant.conf is for WPA only
WPA_supplicant will do just about any type of authentication including plain text, wep, wpa and wpa2 if configured correctly.
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post #9 of 16
2/6/06 at 6:42pm
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is wifi-radar taking forever to connect for anyone else? such as that "working" window never going away?

also, i can only ever run wifi-radar as a sudo user from the command line. i have this problem with other programs as well. how do i fix this so i can run it just from the K menu, and not as superuser?
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post #10 of 16
2/6/06 at 7:36pm
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Originally Posted by c0bblers
WPA_supplicant will do just about any type of authentication including plain text, wep, wpa and wpa2 if configured correctly.


you do not need wpasupplicant if all you are doing is WEP
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post #11 of 16
2/7/06 at 7:06am
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Originally Posted by DimGR
you do not need wpasupplicant if all you are doing is WEP
I was just correcting your statement, which was wrong . WPA_supplicant can be used in a very flexible way by defining multiple different WAPs, stating their priority and then letting it go to figure out what to connect to. Saves switching systems all the time.
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post #12 of 16
2/7/06 at 8:10am
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Originally Posted by c0bblers
I was just correcting your statement, which was wrong . WPA_supplicant can be used in a very flexible way by defining multiple different WAPs, stating their priority and then letting it go to figure out what to connect to. Saves switching systems all the time.

all you need to do for wep is iwconfig ethX essid youressid key yourkey

you do NOT need wpasupplicant for that
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post #13 of 16
2/7/06 at 10:30am
Never said you needed it, just that IT ISN'T WPA ONLY which is what you said.
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post #14 of 16
2/7/06 at 11:00am
it is for wpa only. Yes you can configure it to connect to multiple wlans that have wpa or wpa2 encryption but thats about it
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post #15 of 16
2/7/06 at 12:05pm
NO IT ISN'T LOOK AT THE DARN WEBSITE:
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wpa_supplicant is configured using a text file that lists all accepted networks and security policies, including pre-shared keys. See example configuration file, wpa_supplicant.conf, for detailed information about the configuration format and supported fields. In addition, simpler example configurations are available for plaintext, static WEP, IEEE 802.1X with dynamic WEP (EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2), WPA-PSK/TKIP, and WPA2-EAP/CCMP (EAP-TLS).
Anyway, bored of arguing.
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post #16 of 16
2/7/06 at 3:50pm
I used to use ifconfig iwconfig dhcpcd

http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~hbien/briefca...connect.tar.gz

I figured a nice way to learn python was to write a script so I wouldn't have to type all those commands all the time. probably won't work with your laptop a la carte though.
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