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gnome network manager savior for wireless user
November 13th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Network, nm-applet, wpa_supplicant | Hits: 10364 |
To connect to wifi Acess Point which uses WPA encryption, you can uses wpa_supplicant.
But what if you have difficulty to make it right? getting panic? You need some GUI to help out? Don’t worry, gnome network manager gives you a good help.
Check with your distro, It should be very easy installation. For Debian, Ubuntu,
apt-get install network-manager-gnomeThen login again to your gnome, the applet should be appear at top right coner. You just need to enter your AP name (only if the applet didn’t detect), the encryption type and passphrase.
What if I am not gnome user?
For KDE user can check out kwlan, or network-manager-kde for debian/kubuntu. But the applet actually works for KDE.
What if I am using fluxbox or other windows manager?
The command that trigger the applet is nm-applet, put that to your startup script will be done.
nm-applet &
February 4th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
[...] At my side, I have Linux installed with wifi adapter too (eth1). I would like to mention what tools and commands I use along the setup. I have gnome-network-manager installed, which uses nm-applet to help me connect access point with wpa encryption. I uses ifconfig to configure my IP address and uses iwconfig to check my wireless adapter information, and probably need to use route to set a default gateway. [...]
September 16th, 2007 at 6:21 am
If you are connecting to encrypted WAPs, etc, nm-applet uses the gnome keyring daemon to store the keys, and it must be started as well - just add “gnome-keyring-daemon &”
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 am
it disappeared, and I am unable to get it back:-(
Has this happened to anyone else? If so, how do I go about getting it back?
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
@Steve: What do you mean it disappear? What linux distro are you using? Try to press Alt-F2 and run nm-applet. I assume you are using gnome or kde.