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 eight 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 Ethtool, iw, ceni and wpa_supplicant.
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.
- - wicd is the most popular Linux alternative to NetworkManager.
- - wicd is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to NetworkManager.
wicd Features
Comments about wicd as a Alternative to NetworkManager
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 ...
1ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.
Ethtool Features
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.
iw Features
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.
ceni Features
- 7 wpa_supplicant alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Xfce
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...
- - wpa_supplicant is the most popular Mac alternative to NetworkManager.
wpa_supplicant Features
VSNM - Very Simple Network Manager
As the name suggests it manages the network in a very simplitic way. This version have wifi WPA and WEP only (more to come). To use it, just place the vsnm.cfg file at /etc/ and add there your existing networks. When you can the script (without.
VSNM Features
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.
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.
Wvdial Features