Wireless configuration management

[graffitici]

Hi all,

I'm working on a headless project that requires the RaspberryPi to be connected to a wireless source. I wrote scripts that will connect to the right network, run wpa_supplicant, dhclient etc... However, the system is fairly unstable. For insance, if the connection to the AP is lost, it doesn't reconnect, and do a DHCP request.

Is there a method of automating these wireless settings? I found the netcfg project, but it doesn't exist on the Debian system?

Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Best,
Berk

[JasonN]

Berk, you could have a look at wicd this seems to work better for me.

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sudo apt-get install wicd

You can find out more about the package here http://packages.debian.org/sid/wicd

[graffitici]

Thanks a lot for the input! Wicd also came up in my research. I also found out about NetworkManager and Connman. NetworkManager seems like a very comprehensive project mainly to be used in GNOME. Connman on the other hand was written specifically for embedded devices, so I'll give that a try as well!

Thanks again!