 |
| What Is WiFi Radar? |
 WiFi Radar is a
Python/PyGTK2
utility for managing WiFi profiles.
It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred
networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available
preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks
to arrange the profile priority.
WiFi Radar is tested to work with Centrino's WiFi card IPW2100 but should work
just the same for any iwconfig interface.
To use WiFi Radar you need to have the following:
|
| Usage |
WiFi Radar assumes to be on a Gentoo based system,
but that is a minor detail. Here is what is important:
- It will always look for the config file in /etc/conf.d/wifi_radar.conf.
You can change that in wifi_radar.py
- If that file does not exist, it will create it, so you must always run it within a
correctly permitted account (as root or use sudo)
- Running it without the "--config" option will set it to
"scan and auto connect" mode, which has no UI.
- Running it with the "--config" option will display the UI for configuration.
- The icon SVG file must be in
/usr/share/pixmaps/wifi_radar.svg
You can change everything from the conf file which is a simply .ini file. To change the
location of the .conf file change it in wifi_radar.py.
If you have questions, post them to the Linux Forum at the X1000 Forums site.
Have fun.
|
| Better Gnome Integration |
The following instructions were contributed by Flipp Bunts <flipp.bunts at gmail dot com>. Below are the contents of his email.
how to get wifi_radar custom launcher to use pam authentication in gnome
1. get wifi_radar and untar
2. put wifi_radar.svg in /usr/share/pixmaps
3. put wifi_radar.py in /usr/local/bin
4. ln -s /usr/bin/consolehelper /usr/local/bin/wifi_radar
5. vi /etc/security/console.apps/wifi_radar
USER=root
PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/wifi_radar.py
SESSION=true
6. vi /etc/pam.d/wifi_radar
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
auth sufficient pam_timestamp.so
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_permit.so
session optional pam_xauth.so
session optional pam_timestamp.so
account required pam_permit.so
7. check the permissions
sh-3.00# ls -lh /etc/security/console.apps/wifi_radar /etc/pam.d/wifi_radar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root /etc/pam.d/wifi_radar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root /etc/security/console.apps/wifi_radar
8. add launcher
a. right click on panel
b. select 'add to panel'
c. click on 'custom application launcher'
d. options for 'create launcher'
name : wifi_radar
command : /usr/local/bin/wifi_radar --config
icon : /usr/share/pixmap/wifi_radar.svg
9. click on the icon, enter the root password, away you go
|
| Wifi Radar 2 |
Wifi Radar 2 is in the works. I need help with the thread lockups. I think I'm doing everything right.
You can also get the latest from SVN
Download wifi_radar2 beta and let me know if you can get the scan thread and main PyGTK thread to play nice together.
|
|
