On 10/21/2010 10:51 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>  On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:10:19 -0500, Michael Berkowski wrote:
>> On 10/21/2010 6:37 AM, greg wm wrote:
>>> i recently read of a wireless network chooser that works without a
>>> desktop/wm/gui, but now can't remember, what's its name?
>>>
>>
>> Newer NetworkManager includes nmcli to manage via console or script.
>> It's in Fedora 13.
>>
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/User_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Connecting_to_the_Internet-NM_CLI.html
>>
>> Otherwise if not using NetworkManager, iwlist and iwconfig with
>> wpa-supplicant are the old-fashioned way.
> 
>  There is also WICD. It has a cli component. 
>  http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
>  -Jeremy

Yes, and WICD is probably a better choice than NetworkManager if NM
isn't already deeply embedded -- WICD has fewer dependencies and better
system-wide networking options.  NM *had* to be controlled by the GUI in
userspace until the recent introduction of nmcli.

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