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| author | David Somero <dsomero@hotmail.com> | 2010-05-11 20:01:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.net> | 2010-05-11 20:01:46 +0200 |
| commit | ca43bff4ec0b2f933ac58062447346adea901ca0 (patch) | |
| tree | 78adbfe2822df0285643ff8f5f21f763ed0989b3 /network/wifi-radar/README | |
| parent | 0f4d19b856480f56bfebc83cb94571c8e2992ec0 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-ca43bff4ec0b2f933ac58062447346adea901ca0.tar.gz | |
network/wifi-radar: Added to 12.0 repository
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diff --git a/network/wifi-radar/README b/network/wifi-radar/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..df36d8664b --- /dev/null +++ b/network/wifi-radar/README @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +WiFi Radar is a Python 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. + +This requires pygtk, which in turn requires pygobject and pycairo, all of +which are also available at SlackBuilds.org + +This script installs a wifi-radar.sh script in /usr/bin that by default +runs /usr/sbin/wifi-radar with sudo. You can change this to use ksudo +instead by running the script thusly: + ./wifi-radar.SlackBuild KSUDO=yes + +To use wifi-radar with a normal user (with sudo) add to your /etc/sudoers: + %users ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wifi-radar + +Then launch wifi-radar.sh, which will handle setting up a proper environment +and running /usr/sbin/wifi-radar. + +If you want to scan and connect to one of your preferred networks at +boot, the recommended way is to add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local +and make sure /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar is executable. + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar start + fi +And of course, to rc.local_shutdown: + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar stop + fi + +Please note that according to the manpage, wifi-radar is fairly power hungry +due to its constant scan nature. You may not wish to have it running in the +background all the time sucking battery juice. + +Make sure /etc/wifi-radar/wifi-radar.conf is only readable by root (or perhaps +the group that owns it in some cases). We install the file with mode 0600 by +default, but this was not the case in some earlier revisions, so you should +double-check it to be sure. |