Does this forum also cover wlassistant?

[rapattack1]

Hi I have wlassistant or it's full name is wireless assistant but I have to be logged in as root/sudo and I am not sure how to do this? I am a newbie that has stumbled onto this new area as the newbie section has not brought about results. I think I tried a couple of other forums too and I get nowhere.

[kobewan]

To run it as root, open up a Terminal window and type "sudo wlassistant".

wlassistant is a seperate program, so it would not be included in this forum. If you use Gnome (i.e., you installed Ubuntu) then you should use GTKWifi over wlassistant. wlassistant is useful if you have KDE installed (i.e., you installed Kubuntu).

[rapattack1]

Yep I think I tried that command but got nowhere. All sorts of things happened but nothing I understand. I need to be able to use the gui as no one has told me how to use it command wise.
I did post a question a few days ago on another site/forum to do with this . Well two other forums about linux but I do not understand fully the whole KDE GnOme issue. All I know is is that it is installed and working. I have Ubuntu not kubuntu. As far as GTKWifi. I think that is the program I installed a week ago and I was forever downloading dependencies. It was not going to stop. I also just never got it working and gave up as it was usuing an unreal amount of disk space. I have a 12 gig hd which was filling up too fast but I thought I had everything and it still did not run. I had no way to resolve it as I also was not able to get gnome-ppp installed properly so I could resolve it via the net instead of downloading via my desktop them transfering files via a flash drive.

[kobewan]

Running that command should launch a GUI, no configuring via command should be necessary.

You might want to configure your wireless card initially via command-line, and then use your internet to easily set up a GUI configuration utility. Is your wireless card working, or even supported in Linux? I'm not sure how to check exactly, but the easiest way I know of is to run "iwlist scan" and see what results you get.

If your card does work in Linux and you still can't figure it out, installing Ubuntu Feisty version might solve things for you since it comes packaged with a good connection manager. The official release should be on April 23rd, but I've been using the beta for a few weeks and everything works fine.

[rapattack1]

good news. typing sudo wlassistant does bring up the GUI and i was able to sit in a pub for an hour to get my updates. nice speed. so i am pretty happy with the whole wireless thing. can't seem to send emails for some reason using thunderbird. i can recieve ok but it says something about pop3. i didn't take enough notice as I am running out of battery on the notebook so will look into that later. thanks:KS

[kobewan]

Excellent! Anyways, I was wrong about Feisty, apparently it just came out (officialy). So you should get that, and be able to configure wireless easily without installing any extra applications.

[rapattack1]

Thanks but it is working so well I don't wanna jinx it. Got work to do on the primary box now so the notebook is just for backup and entertainment rather than the real work.:)