NetworkManager Alternatives

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   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 (GPL-2.0)

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Xfce

   

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   Latest version is 1.7.4 released on 2016-01-25

   wicd vs NetworkManager Comments

   Positive comment by Guest · Oct 5, 2016

   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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   iwmenu

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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   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

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   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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   Ethtool

    2 likes

   ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   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 (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   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...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

   Origin

   • Finland
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Xfce

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   • EU

   

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    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 (LGPL-2.1)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    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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