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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Now, on the service this has a lot of advantages. A lot of work has gone into it
All these are things which are very good for Linux users. The biggest drawback to all this? The need for a user-space program to manage the non-hardwired connections. Which means that in order to be able to have any network running besides the good old twisted-pair copper, you have to have a little applet running as you, and it has to have a systray somewhere to display. Which means you have to be a) logged into the system and b) you have to be running a window manager which supports having a system tray. Now, Fedora gives you lots of choices for the second part now days. You have [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org), [KDE](https://www.kde.org), [XFCE](https://www.xfce.org), and LXDE (was at lxde.sf.net). All are perfectly usable window managers. But, they still require you to be logged in to X. And, [I do not use any of them](links://slug/window-managers/).
So, what is a cli-loving Fedora user to do? Well, there is this great program called [wifiroamd](https://www.tummy.com/Community/software/wifiroamd/). It will handle the same basic tasks that NetworkManager handles. It will automatically configure your wifi interface and connect to the wifi networks or the locate hardwired NIC if it cannot. You can configure it to run scripts per connection, so for example, you can change your firewall rules for different networks (shields down at home or the office, but up full at the coffee house), or you could bring up your VPN connection when you start using a given wireless network. One tip I picked up from the author was that if you have multiple AP's in range, an you want to select once AP over the other, is under the */etc/wifiroamd/connections* directory, simply link the AP info you do not want to the one you want:
So, what is a cli-loving Fedora user to do? Well, there is this great program called wifiroamd. It will handle the same basic tasks that NetworkManager handles. It will automatically configure your wifi interface and connect to the wifi networks or the locate hardwired NIC if it cannot. You can configure it to run scripts per connection, so for example, you can change your firewall rules for different networks (shields down at home or the office, but up full at the coffee house), or you could bring up your VPN connection when you start using a given wireless network. One tip I picked up from the author was that if you have multiple AP's in range, an you want to select once AP over the other, is under the */etc/wifiroamd/connections* directory, simply link the AP info you do not want to the one you want:
ln essid:my_home_ap essid:bad_ap