The Best 10 NetworkManager Alternatives

  • wicd

    Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • ceni

    Network manager used by Linux distributions Sidux and Aptosid, but can be installed on debian based distributions, and compiled from source on just about any.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • wpa_supplicant

    wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Xfce

  • iw

    iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. It supports almost all new drivers that have been added to the kernel recently. It allows you...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • VSNM

    VSNM - Very Simple Network Manager As the name suggests it manages the network in a very simplitic way. This version have wifi WPA and WEP only (more to come). To use...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Rfkill

    rfkill is a small tool to query the state of the rfkill switches, buttons and subsystem interfaces.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Ethtool

    ethtool - utility for controlling network drivers and hardware

    Free Open Source Linux

  • KPPP

    KPPP is used to setup PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) connections. This is most useful for connecting with a cell phone "modem" card these days. It is also use...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Wvdial

    WvDial (pronounced "Weave Dial") is an easier way to connect to the internet. It completely avoids the need for chat scripts, edits pap-secrets and...

    Free Open Source Linux