[gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[Mick]

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Hi All,

I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check networks, 
IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist. 
This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[Thomas Kahle]

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Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check networks, 
> IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist. 
> This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent?

Suse has a kde4 version of knetworkmanager. I assume that this will
appear in gentoo at some point. Otherwise you could give "wicd" a try. I
found it very functional and useful! It is a service running in the
background but has different programs to show available networks and
configure. The "ncurses" useflag makes it build a cli client. And a GTK
client is built in any case.

cheers
Thomas


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[Patrick Holthaus]

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Hey!

USE=qt4 emerge wpa_supplicant gives you a small gui tool for scanning and 
adding networks directly to the wpa_supplicant config file. For me, it does 
everything I need.

Patrick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am 12.11.2009 08:36, schrieb Mick:
> Hi All,
>
> I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check networks,
> IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist.
> This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent?

I use KNemo for such things. It displays a symbol for each interface with 
in/out indicator in the style of Windows XP. You have the choice between four 
different symbols (wireless, computer, pci card, modem) and you can choose for 
which interface it should do so.
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5

[Mick]

2009/11/12 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>:
> Am 12.11.2009 08:36, schrieb Mick:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check
>> networks,
>> IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist.
>> This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent?
>
> I use KNemo for such things. It displays a symbol for each interface with
> in/out indicator in the style of Windows XP. You have the choice between
> four different symbols (wireless, computer, pci card, modem) and you can
> choose for which interface it should do so.

Thank you all for your suggestions, it seems that the knetwork manager
may be closer to what I want - although I really just want
kwifimanager.  I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Regards,
Mick