Wireless Managers / Gui's

[david_halliday]

I'm in the process of building a Debian Lenny based linux for the Webdt and am to the point of choosing a wireless manager. There are many to choose from but they all seem huge and im running out of space. What wireless manager would you all suggest (Should have some WPA support)?

Some of the ones I have found are.

knetworkmanager http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager
wlassistant http://wlassistant.sourceforge.net/
networkmanager-gnome  http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/
wicd http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php
wifi radar http://wifi-radar.berlios.de//
wpagui


Dave

[quotaholic]

That has been an issue for me as well. I found oswax and thought it was neat for how light it was.

http://oswax.sourceforge.net/html/en/index.html

One person said they had issues with wifi radar on one of my builds. Each of the "newer" utilities seems to want a big library to use. Python seeming to be the biggest. In lenny though, python was not as large as it was as in Slackware. 

If you are on lenny try Wicd out. It uses python but if I remember when you install alsa-utils on lenny then apt also pulls in python for some unknown reason. Past that I think you need py-gobject and py-gtk. Wicd is a great application.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/


The others you mentioned either need the qt3 and kde frame work or the gnome vfs and libs. Heavy stuff. Wlanassistant was both qt3 and python if I remember. 100 megs just to make connecting easier? I hope that as handset linux gets more popular that the powers that be write more efficiant versions of these libs for portable devices that are x86.