Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1099 bytes --]

On Monday, 21 December 2020 13:21:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> 
> I'm reviving a somewhat elderly Thinkpad T61, installing from scratch after
> wiping out the old Windows XP setup. It has an Intel core-2 CPU.
> 
> 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.

The best way to get it going is to add the necessary driver + firmware, then 
use whichever front end you find easiest for you to manage associations and 
authentication mechanisms and passphrases with various APs.

There's networkmanager, invariably dragged in by all big DEs these days, so 
you can enable this if you are running KDE/Gnome.  A simpler application is 
connman.  I always used wpa_supplicant and whenever I need a GUI I use wpa_cli 
with its GUI - but it can also be run on the CLI.

From what I know wicd has been abandonware for years now.  There may be other 
applications offering the same function, it would be interesting to read what 
others are using.

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]