Multiple wireless networks configuration

I have a WPA_PSK network at home which I configured easily with yast2. Now $WORK is wanting me to use a WPA_EAP network with different SSID and name/password etc. instead of the wired system I hav eused up to now.

I cannot see how to configure this. I have tried using wpa_gui as well but that does not save the configuration even when it is almost working.

As ever I do not run KDE or Gnome; X with fvwm window manager. I did try the network manager but that did exactly nothing.

I am happy hacking configuration files but I do not know where to start.

==John f

On 07/19/2011 04:36 AM, jpff wrote:
>
> I have a WPA_PSK network at home which I configured easily with yast2.
> Now $WORK is wanting me to use a WPA_EAP network with different SSID and
> name/password etc. instead of the wired system I hav eused up to now.
>
> I cannot see how to configure this. I have tried using wpa_gui as well
> but that does not save the configuration even when it is almost
> working.
>
> As ever I do not run KDE or Gnome; X with fvwm window manager. I did
> try the network manager but that did exactly nothing.
>
> I am happy hacking configuration files but I do not know where to
> start.

To do that with ifup, you need to create two versions of the configuration files
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0. Call them ifcfg-wlan0-home and …-work.
When you change locations, run a script that copies the appropriate one to
ifcfrg-wlan0.

Using NetworkManager to handle this situation is ideal; however, getting the
applet to work with fvwm may be a problem. With only 2 locations, the scripts
above will work.

Thanks; I will try that. I had previously tried the network manager but it never did anything, Just exited
==John ff