Managing wireless connections seamlessly with wicd
The nature of my work forces me to be something of a digital nomad -- my notebook computer and a wireless connection are essential parts of my working day. I've been known to move between several wireless access points in one day. While I've had never had any problems with the wireless cards in my Linux-powered notebooks, most of the wireless connection tools I've used have fallen a bit flat. One of the few wireless connection managers that I've actually found useful is wicd -- the Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, pronounced "wicked." It's a lot like the Windows wireless network connection tool in both appearance and ease of use.
The official releases for wicd are, according to its developer, for Ubuntu, but you can use wicd with any Debian-based system. A Debian package and a source tarball (which you can try compiling with any other Linux distro) are available for download.
If you're installing using Synaptic or from a Debian package, the installation is quick. Wicd runs as a daemon, which means that it does most of the heavy lifting in the background while your computer is running. Note that if you're using another daemon-based wireless connection tool -- such as wifi-radar -- you will have to remove or disable that software if you want to take wicd for a test drive.
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