Linux Wireless - Profiles?

[NeoMadHatter]

i'm currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional FTP version on my Dell Inspiron 600m.

I have the wireless working perfectly fine. however, i have to go into the configurations every time i need to use a different wireless network.

i take my laptop to school and use the wireless at school alot. and also at my apartment.
in windows, the intel/windows wireless configuration allows me to set up the 2 configurations perfectly fine and searchs for either when i boot up the computer.

is there any possible way to do something similar to this with Linux? I'm getting very tired of having to reset the settings each time I go between the two networks. ( on a daily basis ).

Thanks for the help.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Nothinman posts about an application for this type of thing on occassion. Try searching for arp in posts made by him.

 

[Nothinman]

I believe Gnome has a tool called network manager that lets you do that. I personally use laptop-net on my notebook because most of the time I'm using wired networks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I believe Gnome has a tool called network manager that lets you do that. I personally use laptop-net on my notebook because most of the time I'm using wired networks.

That app won't work with wireless?

 

[Nothinman]

Not the automatic portion because it uses arp to figure out which network you're on and you can't send/recieve packets from a wifi network until you're associated with the AP. That and last I checked it could only monitor 1 interface at a time, so I just have it do eth0. I still use it for wifi profile switching though, you just say /etc/init.d/laptop-net scheme blah and it switches to that scheme no matter what and you can have it run commands, copy files, etc to setup that profile so even if the automatic detection doesn't work it can still be useful.

 

[cleverhandle]

I'd probably just whip up a little shell script using zenity to offer the user a choice of profiles and then use ifconfig and route directly, basing the info on the user's choice. Then create a GNOME (or KDE) launcher in the panel that fires off that script. That might not be quite as slick as some of the premade profile selectors out there, but I often find that my own scripts for things like this end up being simpler and more direct than the more "sophisticated" choices.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

i couldn't get NetworkManager to work. it seems to be a debian/redhat/slackware program for gnome. i did manage to find this and it seems to be working ok so far:

netapplet