Configuring for multiple wireless networks - kwlan

[hubaloo]

Here's what I've got:

HP Laptop
Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless-G
SimplyMEPIS 6.04 beta 4
Installed MEPIS at the beginning of the week. All software is as up-to-date as my system can find in the repositories that came configured with MEPIS.

Mepis detected my wireless card without issue. It's installed at wlan0.
I can connect to wireless networks fine, as long as I manually set the network configuration whenever I switch networks.

Here's what I'm trying to do:

Wireless at work -
WEP, 64-bit hex key, no WPA, DHCP

Wireless at home -
no WEP or WPA, SSID is not broadcast, static IP & DNS

Wired at home -
static IP & DNS


What I've tried:
- MEPIS Network Assistant, Can only configure for one wireless at a time.

- KWifiManager, Looks like I can configure multiple networks, but can't enter static IP & DNS info.

- Kwlan, so far looks like my best chance of success. Can configure for multiple networks. I'm assuming it will autoswitch between them. However, I cannot get it to configure for my work network. It seems to reject the WEP key, and will not save the profile I create for my work network, although it works swell for my home network. This morning, it's telling me it can't start wpa_supplicant, although it seemed to start last night.
When I try to add the work profile, I get an error message, "Could not write WEP Key! Maybe the format is wrong."
I click okay on that and get another error, "Failed to enable network in wpa_supplicant configuration."
I click okay on that and get an error "Failed to save the wpa_supplicant configuration. Is update_config=1 defined in wpa_supplicant.conf?" And that's it.


What's the best solution here?

Thanks in advance!

[hubaloo]

If my post is was just too retarded to receive support, then I would hope someone could leave a one-line reply pointing out why. Even that would be useful. I wouldn't even mind some mockery and derision at my expense that followed such a reply. Just some tiny little grain of guidance. That's all.

:mad:

[E1PHOTON]

a nice little GUI program that i use is called wifi-radar.

It scans using iwlist as a backbone, then pulls up all available networks and then you can setup how your wifi will connect to each.

[hubaloo]

a nice little GUI program that i use is called wifi-radar.

It scans using iwlist as a backbone, then pulls up all available networks and then you can setup how your wifi will connect to each.


Cool, I'll look at that, thank you.

I've since uninstalled kwifimanager, and kwlan. I didn't realize networkmanager was installed by default. I reinstalled that (because kwlan removed it), but it's disabled in the network assistant window. :confused:

Oh well.

Why does it seem that when you screw something up in linux, it's so hard to fix?

[XiaoKJ]

Well, thats not completely true. I think the difficulty is in the GUI part --- most programmers are more interested in the background operations than the GUI part. The second difficulty is that linux assumes that you already have a background knowledge for quite a number of operations. For example, static IP is rather special...

For example, if you were doing it in CLI way, you can design your own script to switch between the networks easily.