Re: Are there any command-line front-ends for network-manager?

[Beso <givemesugarr gmail com>]

2010/1/26 Hugo Melo <hugo melo gmail com>

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Beso <givemesugarr gmail com> wrote:

2010/1/26 Cian Masterson <cian masterson gmail com>

2010/1/26 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 

I was generally moving towards just an applet-like CLI client, and since
people that want to use a CLI for that sort of stuff will obviously be
familiar with CLI-based configuration, they will certainly be expected
to know how to configure either keyfiles or their distro config files.
I don't think we really need a CLI nm-connection-editor at all.

Dan

For me one of the huge benefits of NM is in dealing with 3G dongles.  I particularly like the interactive way you select country and it prompts you for networks, select network and it prompts you for billing option etc. etc.  I don't need to worry about the APN, any strange network-specific settings, or indeed device-specific settings. 

Would your envisaged CLI solution take care of that or would we need to manually add APN settings and whatnot to config files?  I think a CLI interface would be a great idea, but if it doesn't carry over the easy-to-use aspect of NM it would be a shame.

 
there is cnetworkmanager http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/
i haven't tried it personally. you might give it a try and see if it fits your needs.

It doesn't support VPN or LEAP or 3g.

AFAIK, it works to WPA and WEP only. 

i'm sorry. as i've said i haven't tried it out. you might be able to do everything with a wpa_supplicant script if you want to use it from terminal.

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