KWlan 0.5.7 review

KDE frontend for WPA Supplicant

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 433K Developer: Thomas Michel

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KDE frontend for WPA Supplicant. KWlan allows you to configure different network profiles using all encryptions wpa_supplicant provides (wpa, wpa2, wep etc).

Kicker icon shows connection status. Based on wpa_gui by Jouni Malinen.

Requires wpa_supplicant.

This is the second alpha version.

Here are some key features of "KWlan":
Supports the graphical configuration of wpa_suplicant. Configurations are written via the wpa_supplicant api directly to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Network configurations can be activated in the gui, a kicker icon displays the connection status.

Requirements:
KDE 3.x
wpa_supplicant and supported network card

What's New in This Release:
Use only /sys/class for interface detection and statistics instead of ifconfig
start pppd in user mode instead of root mode (requires user to be in dialup group, respects linux group access rights)
Added warning if user is not in dialup group
Added documentation (at least started it...)