need some accessible command-line tools

[Brian Buhrow]

	hello.  If what you mean by network management tool is a tool that
lets you  seemlessly switch from wireless network to wireless network as
you move around, you can use a combination of dhcpdc and wpa_supplicant.
You may need to write a simple bash script to get things started when you
want to get things going, or which runs automatically on boot, but once
going, dhcpdc and wpa_supplicant can and will reconfigure the network stack
as conditions and environments change.
-thanks
-Brian

On Jun 19,  5:37pm, Doug Smith wrote:
} Subject: Re: need some accessible command-line tools
} 
} 
} Ok, here's the best answer I can give you.  As far as pdftotext, it is in the poppler-utils package.  I do not know of any kind of command line word 
} processor, but there is LaTeX, if that is the way you want to go.  I have never found any kind of good command line network management tool.  That is, 
} none of what I have tried has worked.  I have tried wicd-cli, but it refused to even allow the networks in this building to be scanned.  At this time, 
} I am using ifupdown suite to do this: 
} 
} Each connection you have, make a copy of your /etc/network/interfaces for that connection, editing the critical data such as essid and password.  When 
} you are at a different location, and you know which connection works best do this: 
} 
} ifdown wlan0; ifup -i file-for-working-connection wlan0
} 
} This uses dhclient to get the addresses and bind to connect it all up.  This is not anything like it's done in the gui world, but I have found no 
} network tool that will even work.  Nmcli, for example does not have all the functionality you might need unless someone knows how to use it, and that 
} might be of help.  I have never gotten wicd-cli to scan networks and that would help me a lot if that worked, but it doesn't.  
} 
} 
} 
} Hope this helps. 
} 
} 
} 
} 
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