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["Jack T." <jackt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, December 17, 2014 9:41 pm, Israel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> this is more of an e-mail to sort out my thoughts.
>
> The main issue we are facing is connectivity.
> There are two main options here.
> Use one of the applets (which do not seem to want to work correctly)
> possibly making the base install larger (not too much of a problem) or do
> something else.
>
> SO, if we do something else we need someone who is more of an expert in
> setting up networks in Linux.  The current network applets cost us memory
> to the tune of 5ish MB.  This is not a huge deal, however they don't work
> correctly... so this is a huge deal. If someone knows a way to scan for
> wireless networks from the terminal and log into them without a network
> applet (like you might do on the Mini ISO aside from editing
> /etc/network/interfaces though that could be
> a fine choice as it is a normal file read by the computer on startup...
> though it does cause Ubuntu to boot slowly if the network is not currently
> available....) that would be great.  It is very easy to make a simple
> dialog list in zenity and allow the choice to be passed on to something
> else.  We could make a script that when you click the icon for networking
> it does all the fancy stuff and populates the list.... then when you click
> it it connects you... and you can have that saved to do automatically (by
> including a custom startup script which would be all generated and handled
> automatically)
>
> Does anyone know how feasible this is?  I am thinking Nio or Jörn have a
>  better idea about whether or not this is possible, or if it would be a
> waste of time to try to save a few MB of RAM.
>
> --
> Regards
>
>
> -Israel
> ToriOS Team
>
>
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Hey Israel,

I'm not sure if this will help look for solutions, but 4MLinux seems a
neat small fast JWM implementation; maybe worth a look for how things have
been implemented for some of your remaining tasks...

http://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home

Cheers,
JackT.