Subject: Re: Initial stab at QT based wifi browser. Comments?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/18/2006 21:25:34
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:38:28PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Liam J. Foy wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel:
> >
> > On 18 Apr 2006, at 15:01, ober wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> http://www.linbsd.org/qnetbased1.png and
> >> http://www.linbsd.org/qnetbased2.png are images of my initial work
> >> on making a qt based wifi browser.
> >
> > Are you using the old API or the same code as wiconfig? Also, I think
> > if you search the mailing lists there was talk of this being written
> > in curses too. I think thats a much better decision than QT :)
> 
> If you want to have useful roaming support, I think you'd need to have a
> background daemon connecting to whatever network it "knows". I kind of like
> that feature from (excusez-moi le mot) Windows XP. 

Recently, somebody (I think Steven Bellovin) has posted a recipe on
how to configure dhclient to do this.

	-is
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