[conspire] Script for wifi connections in gawk

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Mar 26 02:22:27 PDT 2015


Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> bougeyman wrote a script that’s basically:
> 
> 1. show what I can connect to
> 2. connect to it
> 
> https://github.com/bougyman/wifish
> 
> Without all the gui fluff and fold.

Very nice, seems to hit a sweet spot.

You see frequent travelers like Ted T'so posting about how much they
regret that the only tool adequate to manage they're WiFi access to many
different ESSIDs with different requirements is NetworkManager, which is
a horribly overengineered GNOME thing with extremely excessive
dependencies.  You see people tell Ted 'You should try wicd', and so on, 
but doubt about adequacy of those alternatives.

Wifish requires only wpa_supplicant, which is a low-level WiFi toolkit that
is well regarded and supoorts diverse front ends.  Wifish also requires
GNU awk, which is what it's written in.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant




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