need some accessible command-line tools

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
As part of the kies software I have released a while ago, there is a 
script/program called kies__wifi with which one can scan/configure the 
wifi.
It will list the found networks and allow user-friendly configuration 
which is then written to wpa_supplicant.conf.
It is called as in kies_wifi wlan0 or whatever the wifi interface is 
called.
I would actually like some more people to test this.
Kies can be downloaded at:
ftp://ftp.csir.co.za/MI/National_Accessibility_Portal/wvdwalt/kies-latest.tar.bz2

Kind regards, Willem

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Doug Smith wrote:

>
>
> 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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