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. } } } } } -- } Doug Smith: Special Agent } S.W.A.T Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology } Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. } } _______________________________________________ } Speakup mailing list } Speakup at linux-speakup.org } http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >-- End of excerpt from Doug Smith
