From: Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org>
To: Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=opmbx.org@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wireless networking in guix
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:02:52 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b051c7c17858af580b9969c4887c1da4@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMwaQALsc=byh=tNgOPVY3oMahxgzfa9+a67Fmr+dD10g6PFTg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2015-01-26 23:56, Omar Radwan wrote:
> I recently purchased a ThinkPenguin Wireless USB adapter because I
> have a built-in Intel wireless card to work with my Thinkpad. I've
> been spending some time to get wireless up and running, and I can say
> with the utilities like wpa-supplicant, iw, and ip, it's a very
> tedious process every time you wanted to get your wireless network up
> and running. I think we should get a wireless network manager, and I
> do not recommend NetworkManager since it has a dependency on systemd
> and we don't have that. I would recommend wicd, except that its
> development it practically dried up, but it's still usable, I don't
> know of any other network managers, but maybe we should look into it.
The Wicd is a good alternative and there are fewer dependencies. I
believe that Wicd package will go out in soon.
--
Daniel Pimentel (d4n1)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-27 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-27 2:56 Wireless networking in guix Omar Radwan
2015-01-27 13:02 ` Daniel Pimentel [this message]
2015-01-27 13:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-27 13:09 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-01-27 15:02 ` Omar Radwan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-27 15:08 Ondra Pelech
2015-01-27 15:19 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-27 15:26 ` Ondra Pelech
2015-01-27 15:48 ` Omar Radwan
2015-01-27 16:48 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-27 17:01 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-27 19:39 ` Svetlana Tkachenko
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