[pkg-fso-maint] wicd vs. wifi-radar

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:50:49 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:

> >> I am sorry to revive an old thread, but I have started to play with
> >> graphical WiFi manager only now :-)
> > Welcome to the club :)
> Thank you, but I think I will leave it early to go back to CLI (as in
> Command Line Interface, not the Mono stuff) tools...

Oh, I prefer the command line, too, but without a real keyboard on
the FR I started my exploration of GUI-land ...
 
> > Hm, sounds interesting; but the description is really a bit
> > non-trivial ...
> > And configuring WPA manually also doesn't sound very attractive.
> Surely not, but IMHO as most of the CLI tools, once you get used to it
> they have no adversary than can bite them.  

I completely agree, and my other machines show that clearly :)

> Obviously, for a newbie this
> is a no-op, I agree.

Ack.
 
> > Works for me (with dhcp3-client instead of udhcp) but it's similarly
> > slow and resource-hungry as wicd ...
> ...wifi-radar was not resource-hungry.  I guess in both cases the cause
> is Python, so I think there is nothing we can do :-(

Probably, yeah.

Cheers,
gregor

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