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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 20:18, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:13:24AM -0500, Hal wrote:
> >> Greetings: Does anyone know of a WiFi Client that's runable CLI??
> >>
> >> I have 'WLAssistant' but it requires KDE.. So slow on my legacy stuff. :^(
> >
> > Sure, I have a page that although it really deals with Fedora and making
> > sure the problem isn't NetworkManager, might also be useful. Depending
> > upon your encryption method, the standard wireless tools might work, or
> > you might need wpa_supplicant.
> >
> > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/wireless.html
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> FWIW, NetworkManager also has a cli (nmcli) that can be used to bring
> wireless interfaces up and down...
Is the primary benifit of using a wireless program like nmcli instead
of ifconfig/iwconfig just a matter of not storing the network key in
plain text in your shell history? Presumably that key is encrypted
during transfer and communication with the WAP, but oddly I didn't
have much luck finding documentation on that. Does anybody know if
when you connect via "iwconfig wlan0 essid <name> key
s:<encryption_key> if that is transmitted unsecured over the air? I'm
suddenly wishing I had looked into this more in the past...
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