On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 23:33 +0200, Marek Chlopek wrote:

On Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:32, Peter Van Lone wrote:

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I don't seem to be able to find a tool for configuring various wireless profiles. When I set my laptop up I added the SSID and etc of my office wireless, but now would like to add the local coffe shop, my home setup, etc ...

What tool do I use to accomplish this? And, how then do I switch back and forth from one to the other. What I really want is not the complete "how to" but ... a high-level description:

this is how the process works, these are the tools to use, here are some links. That would be perfect!

scpm - enable and configure

Or much easier, use KNetworkManager. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On 4/20/06, James Knott wrote:

There is KWiFi Manager, but I've never seen it work.

yast does not seem to offer this as an option to install. Same thing for KNetworkManager. Where do I find these utilities? SCPM scares me -- it sounds like one of those "this is a great idea let's do everything" approaches. I just want to add wireless connection info, not change my entire net config. I don't know, am I wrong, and this is just straight forward and easy? P

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:55 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:

On 4/20/06, Peter Van Lone wrote:

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yast does not seem to offer this as an option to install. Same thing for KNetworkManager. Where do I find these utilities?

I finally found KWiFi Manager -- it is part of kdenetwor3-wireless package, and it is installed. It's odd though, I had searched the K menu, and did not find it. But, this time I found it in Internet/DataExchange. Must have been asleep, or something! Ok, now off to try to make it work!

The actual package name is NetworkManager. Open YaST Software Management and search for networkman. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Peter Van Lone wrote:

On 4/20/06, James Knott wrote:

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There is KWiFi Manager, but I've never seen it work.

yast does not seem to offer this as an option to install. Same thing for KNetworkManager. Where do I find these utilities?

SCPM scares me -- it sounds like one of those "this is a great idea let's do everything" approaches. I just want to add wireless connection info, not change my entire net config. I don't know, am I wrong, and this is just straight forward and easy?

It is in Yast, though you'll have to search for it. It's also part of the "Control Center". Either way, it still doesn't work.

I have found that SCPM is a very effective tool. In my situation, I have a number of different needs: Wired DHCP with HTTP proxies set up for work Wired DHCP For teaching at a local university. Wireless unsecured - For MIT at the BLU meetings, installfests, and traveling. Wireless secured - For home. Wired static IP. With SCPM profiles set up, it is simple to bring up my system in the different network environments. The wireless environments should also have the wired interface (eth0) turned off otherwise the routing loses its default route. The only problem I have had with SuSE 10 and SCPM is that the profile boot parameter does not appear to work, but I have not checked it closely enough to see if I have everything kosher. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Friday 21 April 2006 9:44 am, Ken Schneider wrote:

And with NetworkManager all you do is click on an icon in the system tray and select a different network, bada boom, bada bing, done. No logging out, no reboot involved. I know that, but that is not the point. I take my laptop to MIT and I want it to boot into the Wireless profile. I take my laptop to work, I want it to boot into the appropriate profile.

It is very simple for me to type the command "sudo scpm switch MIT", or to click on the NetworkManager, but that is an extra step. I know I don't have to log out. I've been doing that for years, especially when I teach, I forget to select the appropriate profile, so I select it after booting. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9