NetworkManager Alternatives

NetworkManager is described as 'Set of co-operative tools that make networking simple and straightforward. Whether WiFi, wired, 3G, or Bluetooth, NetworkManager allows you to quickly move from one network to another: once a network has been configured and joined once, it can be detected and' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are nine alternatives to NetworkManager for Linux, Xfce and Mac. The best NetworkManager alternative is wicd, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NetworkManager are iwmenu, iw, ceni and Ethtool.

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  1. wicd icon

    wicd

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    Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    Wicd is great for those who change networks often (tablets laptops etc.) It's an excellent interface to "lower level" tools doing the authentication etc. ... command line and GUI interfaces and from my memory allows hotspots / hostapd setup ...

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    • Almost everyone thinks wicd is a great NetworkManager alternative.

    • wicd is the most popular Linux alternative to NetworkManager.

    • wicd is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NetworkManager.

    • wicd is Free and Open SourceNetworkManager is also Free and Open Source

  2. iwmenu

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    (iNet Wireless Menu) allows using your menu of choice to manage the wireless network.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. iw icon

    iw

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    iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. It supports almost all new drivers that have been added to the kernel recently. It allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. ceni icon

    ceni

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    Network manager used by Linux distributions Sidux and Aptosid, but can be installed on debian based distributions, and compiled from source on just about any.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  6. Ethtool

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    ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.

    9 Ethtool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. wpa_supplicant icon

    wpa_supplicant

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    wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are...

    8 wpa_supplicant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    • wpa_supplicant is the most popular Mac alternative to NetworkManager.

    • wpa_supplicant is Free and Open SourceNetworkManager is also Free and Open Source
  9. VSWM icon

    VSWM

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    As the name suggests it manages the wireless network in a very simplistic way. This version have wifi WPA and WEP, with dhcp and static networks. To use it, just place the vswm.cfg file at /etc/ and add there your existing networks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. KPPP icon

    KPPP

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    KPPP is used to setup PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) connections. This is most useful for connecting with a cell phone "modem" card these days. It is also use to configure real modem connections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Wvdial icon

    Wvdial

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    WvDial (pronounced "Weave Dial") is an easier way to connect to the internet. It completely avoids the need for chat scripts, edits pap-secrets and chap-secrets for you, detects your modem automatically, and chooses a valid init string.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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