[COLUG] Auto-attaching to arbitrary wireless networks

[Duane]

Duane wrote:
> Rob Funk wrote:
> 
>> So I started doing some apt-cache searching.
>>   apt-cache search wireless | grep -i kde
> 
> Oh so close :)
> 
> # apt-cache search networkmanager|grep -i kde
> knetworkmanager - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
> network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
> 
> seems network manager isn't a window manager specific app, but provides
> hooks for window manager specific apps.

and there is a whole lotta plugins for different networking technologies
etc.

network-manager - network management framework daemon
network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files)
network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend)
network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
network-manager-openvpn - network management framework (OpenVPN plugin)
network-manager-pptp - network management framework (PPTP plugin)
network-manager-vpnc - network management framework (VPNC plugin)

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 Duane

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