ratpoiston and wifi

[JeffAbrahamson]

How do I connect/disconnect? How do I see my status? How do I connect to a new network?

[JeffAbrahamson]

This might help:

spits out current wifi network

bind w exec ratpoison -c "echo $(iwconfig wlan0 | grep -o -E ESSID:\".+\")"

[JeffAbrahamson]

I can get a list of all available wifi networks thus:

$ iwlist wlan0 scanning | grep ESSID

nm-applet needs gnome. nmcli doesn't support providing secrets.

[JeffAbrahamson]

Some folks on the net have managed to get nm-applet working by starting a gnome-panel.

http://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/X/How%20to%20get%20Network%20Manager%20working%20with%20ratpoison.html

http://box.matto.nl/ratpoison_nmapplet.html

[JeffAbrahamson]

wicd may do the trick.

$ apt-cache search wicd

http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?p=17675&sid=23aafe9a1152fae42dfb7074ba4d4040

[JeffAbrahamson]

stalonetray + nm-applet works. There's some trickiness to get rid of it again.

[JeffAbrahamson]

What's left:

• show wired network as well as wifi
• a way to kill the nm-applet when the stalonetray exits