From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 03F3E1EF56F; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from speakup.octothorp.org (speakup.octothorp.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:2340::2]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81F721EF08B for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lothlorien.nfbcal.org (ns.NFBCAL.ORG [157.22.230.125]) by speakup.octothorp.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r5JN9Qiq004734 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:09:33 GMT Received: from lothlorien.nfbcal.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lothlorien.nfbcal.org (8.14.1/8.14.1-NFBNETBSD) with ESMTP id r5JN49Nf022710 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lothlorien.nfbcal.org Received: (from buhrow@localhost) by lothlorien.nfbcal.org (8.14.1/8.12.11) id r5JN49Bf028837; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <201306192304.r5JN49Bf028837@lothlorien.nfbcal.org> From: Brian Buhrow Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130619213717.GB6929@Enterprise> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(4.pl1)+dynamic 20000103) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: need some accessible command-line tools X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (lothlorien.nfbcal.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 Cc: buhrow@nfbcal.org X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:09:38 -0000 hello. If what you mean by network management tool is a tool that lets you seemlessly switch from wireless network to wireless network as you move around, you can use a combination of dhcpdc and wpa_supplicant. You may need to write a simple bash script to get things started when you want to get things going, or which runs automatically on boot, but once going, dhcpdc and wpa_supplicant can and will reconfigure the network stack as conditions and environments change. -thanks -Brian On Jun 19, 5:37pm, Doug Smith wrote: } Subject: Re: need some accessible command-line tools } } } Ok, here's the best answer I can give you. As far as pdftotext, it is in the poppler-utils package. I do not know of any kind of command line word } processor, but there is LaTeX, if that is the way you want to go. I have never found any kind of good command line network management tool. That is, } none of what I have tried has worked. I have tried wicd-cli, but it refused to even allow the networks in this building to be scanned. At this time, } I am using ifupdown suite to do this: } } Each connection you have, make a copy of your /etc/network/interfaces for that connection, editing the critical data such as essid and password. When } you are at a different location, and you know which connection works best do this: } } ifdown wlan0; ifup -i file-for-working-connection wlan0 } } This uses dhclient to get the addresses and bind to connect it all up. This is not anything like it's done in the gui world, but I have found no } network tool that will even work. Nmcli, for example does not have all the functionality you might need unless someone knows how to use it, and that } might be of help. I have never gotten wicd-cli to scan networks and that would help me a lot if that worked, but it doesn't. } } } } Hope this helps. } } } } } -- } Doug Smith: Special Agent } S.W.A.T Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology } Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. } } _______________________________________________ } Speakup mailing list } Speakup@linux-speakup.org } http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >-- End of excerpt from Doug Smith