Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:29:07 +0000 (UTC) From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: GUI wireless tools? Message-ID: <pan.2008.01.30.19.29.06@sremick.net>
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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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