WiFi
Submitted by KenHayber on Sun, 2006-08-13 01:08
Summary:
a Wireless quality monitor applet
Current stable version:
003
Home page:
Summary:
a Wireless quality monitor applet
Current stable version:
003
Home page:
http://code.google.com/p/rox-wifi/wiki/WiFi
Primary author(s):
Cyrille Mars, Ken hayber
WiFi is an Applet for monitoring the status (signal strength) of your Wireless connection.
It shows the status as an icon (with several themes) with detailed statistics in a tooltip.
(Note: The original applet was written by Cyrille Mars and is hosted at http://www.m4rs.org; but it seems to not be there any more. I have been hacking on my own copy and decided to release it as version 002.)
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WiFi / NetworkManager
What's the relationship between WiFi and NetworkManager (if any)?
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager
(NetworkManager is a D-BUS system service for managing wired and wireless network connections. It interacts with the user via an applet such as GNOME's nm-applet.)
re: WiFi / NetworkManager
Currently none. I have been very interested in NM and finally it is in Gentoo so I can build it, but haven't got it working on my system yet. WiFi _could_ become a ROX front-end to NM. Currently it is just a monitor. (We can't run gnome applets in ROX panel, right?)
nm-applet on ROX
nm-applet uses the freedesktop.org system tray spec, so it runs fine under ROX in SystemTrayN. It doesn't seem quite complete yet though (e.g. I have to enter the password every time I join an encrypted network, even if I've been there before).
NetworkManager ToDo list
The password issue is slated to be addressed in the 0.7 timeframe. See here
(I didn't realize that it used the system tray. That works fine. But I still can't get it to connect to my AP.)