As is often the case with mesh or university networks, many access points have the same name but operate on different channel/frequency, providing different wireless bandwidth. Windows has Wifi Manager or WirelessMon utilities that lets you connect to a network with specific MAC address. In my short search, I could not find such a GUI tool for Linux, so I decided create one. This is my attempt at it, and while it does the core job well, some bugs remain and some features are yet to be implemented.
Written with Vala, the tool integrates with the OS theme well as it uses GTK+, shows access points on different network cards (or all together), lets the user scan, connect, disconnect, delete a profile and turn Wi-Fi on/off. It even includes a small IPv4 configuration utility, though the OS provided one is perfectly fine and feature rich.
The main window, with a Wi-Fi adapter and access point list
Separation of two access points with same name according to their MAC address (*****-Guest)
Theming support, according to OS theme
Note, access point names and the first three octets of MAC address have been removed to protect privacy.
You must have make, ruby~>1.9, valac, libgtk-3-dev, libnm-glib-dev, libnm-util-dev installed in your system.
sudo apt install make ruby valac libgtk-3-dev libnm-glib-dev libnm-util-devRun the generator script
ruby ./generator.rbThis should create the res.xml and Makefile.
Finally run make, this should build a release executable. See makefile for other options.
Run the executable using ./builds/release/run and check for correct operation.
- Fix ipv4 config related bugs
- Support WPA2 Enterprise
- Add documentation for
build_opt.yaml - Rewrite
generator.rb, it is an ugly mess