Wireless Assistant 0.5.7

[Pawel Nawrocki]

Name: Wireless Assistant
Version: 0.5.7
Type: Networking Tool
Depend: KDE 3.5.x
License: GPL
Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wlassistant/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=21832

Description:
 Wireless Assistant (wlassistant) is a small
application that allows you to connect to wireless
networks.

* MAIN FEATURES:
- WPA-PSK Encryption Support (WPA/WPA2)
- WEP Encryption Support
- Not Broadcasted ("hidden") ESSIDs Support
- Per Network (AP) Configuration Profiles
- Automatic (DHCP, both dhcpcd and dhclient) and
manual configuration options.
- Connection status monitoring.

* MAIN REQUIREMENTS:
- wireless-tools 27 or newer (with iwlib)
- dhcpcd or dhclient
- sudo
- wpa_supplicant with wpa_cli for WPA-PSK support

* Example sudo config: If you want to e.g. allow
all users from some group to use wlassistant, add
the following line to your /etc/sudoers:
    %{group_name} ALL=NOPASSWD:
{path_to_kde}/bin/wlassistant

Changelog:
 *** RELEASE 0.5.7:
* NOTE: This release includes some brand new or
rewritten features. Please submit bugs to sf.net
page and comments/votes here. Thanks!

* NEW: Finally WPA-PSK support (WPA/WPA2, please
test and report in case of problems!)
* NEW/FIX: Rewritten, completely new connection
state detection (please comment!)
* NEW: Optional grouping of APs with the same
ESSID
* FIX: UI refinements
* FIX: hide encryption keys in console output and
edit dialogs
* FIX: Connection using dhclient fails
* FIX: don't check for connection while wizard is
running
* FIX: remove default gateway upon disconnection
if not managed by DHCP client
* FIX: updated Polish translation (with help from
riklaunim)
* FIX: Many internal changes, more stable