Wifi without networkmanager?

[SteamKit]

Hello all, I was wondering if someone could show me where to get information on how to set up a wifi connection without NetworkManager. It's probably a pain in the *** but shortly ago I demolished NM and it took a while to get it back up and running, and I wouldn't have been able to if I hadn't had access to another machine with internet, and I don't wanna get caught with my pants down again. Thank you.

-Kit

[rokytnji]

What Distro are you running. If you have Synaptic Package manager. Do a search for Wicd which I use as a Network manager to connect with .Install it. It should replace Network manager if you are running Ubuntu (I think, aint sure). It is easyto use and set up. Gui interface.

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[SteamKit]

Alright! That looks pretty nifty, I"ll be sure to check it out as a GUI based networking program. I perhaps wasn't clear though, what I was looking for was if anybody could point me toward a tutorial or the like for if there's a way to manually set up this sort of thing without the automagic programs just in case.


-Kit

[rokytnji]

Wicd – Wired and Wireless Network manager for Ubuntu|Ubuntu Geek

Best I can do without knowing your Distro

[reed9]

For pretty much any distro the tools you need are
iwconfig
ifconfig
dhclient or dhcpcd
wpa_supplicant if you're using WPA/WPA2 encryption.

Basic usage for wireless.
As root

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid <network name>
dhclient wlan0

If you use WPA encryption this doesn't work and you need to configure the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf first. Then add the line

wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

after the iwconfig bit.

[SteamKit]

Alright! Thank you all. I got wicd working and am testing it out, and am going to have to play with doing it manually. It's much appreciated.

-Kit

[reed9]

Just FYI, starting with WICD 1.6, they included a curses interface as well, so you don't need a GUI to use it. You never mentioned your distro, but that should be available in Ubuntu 9.10, and I assume the other new releases of various distros coming out soon. You can start it with

wicd-curses