KWireless Tools Pro

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on git.opendesktop.org

Score 70%

Description:

The Wireless Tools utility for Debian is completely different from that for other linux based systems. Therefore, KDE Control Center and other common applications cannot setup/modify your wireless connections.

Features:
- Discover access points
- Manage connections, AP database
- Continuous monitor (for adjusting your antenna, or you check the signal stability)
- Setup default connection (by modifying the system configuration file)

This application uses codes from the following GPL licensed projects:
PyWireless by S.Çaglar Onur
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PyWireless?content=28637
(You can see more screenshots here.)
and
Gestor Guifi by Julian Coccia (http://julian.coccia.com)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/guifi/

KWireless Tools Pro is intended to Debian based systems. It must work on Ubuntu from Feisty.
Although you can convert it to rpm/tgz but some functions like Setup Default Connection Start/Stop Default Connection will not work on other systems. Moreover on SuSE 10.2, the Continuous Monitor also will not work. Essential packages are missing. They were present in the 9.x series. You need the following packages as dependences: python, pyQt3, pyKDE, pyQwt4, perl-GTK2, wireless-tools, dhcp-client, resolvconf, ifupdown and wpa supplicant (if you use WPA encoding).

Last changelog:

11 years ago

Changlog for version 1.2

- More additional parameters for the default connection
- Additional parameters are saved from this version
- Some make-up.

Changlog for version 1.1

- Manage Connection module resize problem has been fixed.
- WPA support for default connection. (I cannot test it, feedback need.)
- Solution for systems having more than one wireless device.

Divilinux
11 years ago

python-qwt4

i missed this packet. Now i can confirm that Monitor works great on kubuntu 7.04
:)

this is the previous error:

ImportError: No module named Qwt4.Qwt

tnx

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Divilinux
11 years ago

i've PyWireless and i've found this program pretty good. I can connect myself to an AP monitoring frequency at the same time with no loss-memory.
Unfortunately i have Kubuntu Feisty and Continuos Monitor doesn't work..is there any workaroud about?
tnx

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trisz
11 years ago

You have to install the python-qwt4 library.
If it is installed, please open a terminal and type:

python /usr/share/PyWireless/monitorWindow.py + the name of your active interface as an argument (ra0, ath0, wlan0...)

or without the controls:

python /usr/share/PyWireless/monitor.py

What kind of error message appears?

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paai
11 years ago

Hi,
I get no reaction in my monitor window.

when I start monitorwindow by hand, I get a cascade of
0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/PyWireless/monitor.py", line 193, in timerEvent
self.setCurveData(self.keys[key], self.timeData, self.data[key])
TypeError: expected is
(*) a list or tuple of Python numbers.
(*) a NumPy array coercible to PyArray_DOUBLE.
(!) rebuild PyQwt to support Numeric arrays.
(!) rebuild PyQwt to support numarray arrays.

Paai.

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paai
11 years ago

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KDH
11 years ago

...is not working right for me. When ever I try to open the manage connections dialog it will immediately resize itself so that the window doesn't fit on my laptop's 1024x768 display. Any idea what might be causing it?

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trisz
11 years ago

Is it the only problem?

There are a gtk-qt setup in the KDE Control Center. Install the gtk-qt package. Try to alter the settings.
Other style, font size ...
These features cannot be adjusted by programming. They are depends on system settings.

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KDH
11 years ago

Alright, I figured out what the problem was. It was resizing because I have three DNS servers automatically configured whenever I connect to my router, and the script was displaying each one on its own line forcing everything to spread out

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oooooops
11 years ago

It doesn't appear to support WPA. Plans for that?

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trisz
11 years ago

I would give a solution for WPA, but to tell the thruth, I cannot test it. It would be a touch-typing not python programming. If you could test it...

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seraphyn
11 years ago

Possibility to have the sources without deb ?

Greetings Seraphyn

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trisz
11 years ago

This is a python/perl application.
The package contains only "source".
See:
/usr/share/PyWireless

Convert it with alien, or extract it vith Ark!

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seraphyn
11 years ago

// Convert it with alien, or extract it vith Ark! \\

Got Debian, this was a Question for translation.
Will have a look at the package and we will see.

Thx

Seraphyn

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