[conspire] Things to look up, on the wireless matter

[Rick Moen]

List arrived at using apt-cache.


ceni - Curses interface to /etc/network/interfaces
connman - Intel Connection Manager daemon
iw - tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
network-config - Simple network configuration tool
python-wicd - wired and wireless network manager - Python module
wicd - wired and wireless network manager - metapackage
wicd-cli - wired and wireless network manager - scriptable console
client
wicd-curses - wired and wireless network manager - Curses client
wicd-daemon - wired and wireless network manager - daemon
wicd-gtk - wired and wireless network manager - GTK+ client
wicd-kde - Wired and wireless network manager - plasmoid
wifi-radar - graphical utility for managing Wi-Fi profiles
wpasupplicant - client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
wpagui - graphical user interface for wpa_supplicant
wireless-tools - Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions



'iw' looks promising and something to watch.  See:gg
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
(It's the replacement for iwconfig, which is now deprecated.)

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/ calls out
NetworkManager, wicd, and connman as 'wireless managers'.