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Reviews

1. soaked and soaped blog
2. linux.com article
3. propeller.com review
4. ubuntulinuxhelp.com review

Installed out of the box on

1. Zenwalk
2. Linux Mint XFCE Community Edition

Features

1. backwards compatible with standard *nix networking commands (iwconfig, ifconfig, etc)
2. wired networks
3. named network profiles
4. select between static IP addresses and DHCP on a per network basis
5. store different static IPs, gateways, subnet masks, DNS server addresses per network
6. wireless networks
   1. automatically connect at boot - no user intervention required, even for encrypted networks
   2. keeps network keys in root accesible only (600) files (unencrypted, however)
   3. automatically selects between static IP addresses and DHCP on a per network basis
   4. encryption (template based)
      1. WPA 1/2
      2. WEP
      3. LEAP
      4. TTLS
      5. EAP
      6. PEAP
7. automatically connects at resume from suspend
8. displays information about the network

Testing Features

These features are in the testing branch of SVN and are not available (yet!) in a release. They should make it into the next release.

1. Support for ralink cards
2. Ability to run scripts before/after connecting/disconnecting
3. New and updated translations