Howto Manage Multiple Network Environment?

[Guyou]

Hi,

I'm a newbie. I recently leave my cacko for a fresh OZ/Opie.

I'm confused by the network management. On cacko, I was able to set multiple configuration for my WIFI connection (eg one for home, one for office, one for friend network...). When activatng the network, I have to select one environment and... it works.

On OZ/Opie, I did not found anithing like this. What I found is an application that seems to be a "simple" backend for the /etc/network/interfaces. Each time I change environment, I have to manually re-insert configuration.

What is the killer-app on opie to manage multiple network environment?

[wsuetholz]

Hello, since nobody answered...  The kind of thing you are doing sounds like what the WPA_Supplicant is for.  That way things would happen automatically.

Bill

[lardman]

What is the killer-app on opie to manage multiple network environment?

Good question, this is not something I need so I don't know. Do we have something like this, and if not would someone like to write one?


Si

[law]

i have written some network-profile shellscirpts incl. an gpe-applet to change them,

i can post them if someone needs them.

here are some screenshots:

http://helmsdeep.homelinux.net/%7Epat/word.../port.16522.png
http://helmsdeep.homelinux.net/%7Epat/word.../port.15841.png

the main-app is a shellscript so it should also work with opie....

[lardman]

Yes, could you add the scripts & applet as an enhancement type bug in the OE bugtracker please.

If someone wants to write a similar applet for Opie, then this will ought to pretty much solve the issue.


Si

P.S. hrw tells me that you can also use wpa-gui (wpagui?) under GPE. It requires QT4 though so is not a particularly lightweight solution.

[koen]

Yes, could you add the scripts & applet as an enhancement type bug in the OE bugtracker please.

If someone wants to write a similar applet for Opie, then this will ought to pretty much solve the issue.


Si

P.S. hrw tells me that you can also use wpa-gui (wpagui?) under GPE. It requires QT4 though so is not a particularly lightweight solution.
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qt3-x11, not qt4

[Hrw]

ops. my mistake then as I told lardman that this use qt4..

[lardman]

Either way it's extra libs. I like the idea of some generic (between GUIs) scripts and some thin/light GUI applets to control them.


Si

[law]

hi,
you can find all relevant files at:

http://helmsdeep.homelinux.net/~pat/network-profiles/ (incl. .bb-files)