From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Pimentel Subject: Re: Wireless networking in guix Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:02:52 -0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42449) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YG5pA-00071g-Py for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:05:00 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YG5nM-0003Ga-UP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:03:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Omar Radwan Cc: guix-devel , guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=opmbx.org@gnu.org 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)