2010-05-11 20:01:46 +02:00
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WiFi Radar is a Python utility for managing WiFi profiles. It enables
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you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred
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networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an
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available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your
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preferred networks to arrange the profile priority.
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This script installs a wifi-radar.sh script in /usr/bin that by default
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runs /usr/sbin/wifi-radar with sudo. You can change this to use ksudo
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instead by running the script thusly:
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./wifi-radar.SlackBuild KSUDO=yes
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To use wifi-radar with a normal user (with sudo) add to your /etc/sudoers:
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%users ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wifi-radar
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Then launch wifi-radar.sh, which will handle setting up a proper environment
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and running /usr/sbin/wifi-radar.
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If you want to scan and connect to one of your preferred networks at
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boot, the recommended way is to add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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and make sure /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar is executable.
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if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar ]; then
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/etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar start
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fi
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And of course, to rc.local_shutdown:
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if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar ]; then
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/etc/rc.d/rc.wifi-radar stop
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fi
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Please note that according to the manpage, wifi-radar is fairly power hungry
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due to its constant scan nature. You may not wish to have it running in the
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background all the time sucking battery juice.
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2010-05-11 22:26:00 +02:00
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Make sure /etc/wifi-radar.conf is only readable by root (or perhaps the
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group that owns it in some cases). We install the file with mode 0600 by
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2010-05-11 20:01:46 +02:00
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default, but this was not the case in some earlier revisions, so you should
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2010-05-11 22:26:00 +02:00
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double-check it to be sure. As of version 1.9.9 the config file is now
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/etc/wifi-radar.conf, if you are upgrading you need to move you old config
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file to /etc.
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