From: "Matt Connell (Gmail)" <matthewdconnell@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:42:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4df834e2b73a6f1f0bd599db7fc5bc0e46590a5e.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5687092.lOV4Wx5bFT@peak>
On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 13:21 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Is wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I think I remember
> something like wicd being better.
It depends on your needs.
If you're only going to connect to one or two networks, using
wpa_supplicant and learning wpa_cli will be managable. The Arch wiki
has an excellent step-by-step wpa_cli example.
However, if you're travelling from place to place and hopping networks,
then you may find that kind of maintenance tedious and opt to use
wpa_gui instead. It certainly isn't fancy but it is featureful and
user-friendly.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-21 21:42 UTC|newest]
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 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-12-21 21:42 ` Matt Connell (Gmail) [this message]
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