From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:18:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201221181811.42e7ce31@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5687092.lOV4Wx5bFT@peak>
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On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:21:59 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is
> wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I
> think I remember something like wicd being better.
Last time I looked, wicd was dead with the author recommending
NetworkManager, hardly ideal for old hardware. I'd probably stick with
using wpa_supplicant directly, but you could try connman.
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Neil Bothwick
Oxymoron: Clearly Misunderstood.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-21 13:21 [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad Peter Humphrey
2020-12-21 13:52 ` Michael
2020-12-21 15:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-21 18:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-21 18:18 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-12-21 21:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Matt Connell (Gmail)
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