Reloading Experience--Wireless

[Larry Hartman]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 08:05:00 am Peter Niedzinski wrote:
> Congratulations!  And thanks as well.  I have been having similar
> difficulties with my wireless card, and I am also running Feisty.  That
> WICD seems to be the solution!

Did you successfully get the tray icon to load?  If so what did you do?  I 
tried once but could not.  Has something to do with KDE autostart I am sure.  
I just added the application to the panel as a temporary workaround.  

I also have a Superkaramba theme loaded on the desktop -- Wifimon-0.1 that 
reports link quality, signal strength, and essid in a nice little graphic 
layout.

I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am with this inadvertent find!  Made 
my computing life so much simpler.

>
> On 5/29/07, Larry Hartman <larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > For those who are US citizens, hope you all had a good Memorial Day
> > weekend.
> >
> > I had 4 days off and spent some of those four days reloading (K)ubuntu on
> > my
> > laptop.  I decided to do this because I first learned how to use Ubuntu
> > on Dapper just before Edgy was released, and had upgraded twice to
> > Feisty.  I made some mistakes in the initial loading process  that I just
> > could not resolve that cost me abilities to use some w32codecs-related
> > media.  So after
> > wisdom from 8 months of use and improved packages I reloaded.
> >
> > My system is an HP dv8000 laptop that comes with two hardware
> > difficulties.
> > The first is ATI XPress 200M graphics.  FGLRX has come a long way in the
> > past
> > 8 months.  The other is the BCM4318 Air Force One wireless.  The BCM43xx
> > module is too flaky with this card, so I went to NDISWrapper. 
> > NDISWrapper was not so hard to get working, but Network Manager just
> > would not play well.
> > I eventually got nm to work ok, but never got my wireless to start
> > immediately at boot.  So off to the Ubuntu forums I went.
> >
> > Someone on the forums--I think Compwiz18--posted about a networking tool
> > called WICD.  It is a replacement for nm that is built in Python.  Here
> > is the sourceforge website:
> >
> > http://wicd.sourceforge.net/pages/features.php
> >
> > Let me tell you that for the past 8 months  I spent hours on nm to get it
> > to
> > run properly--and only partly succeeded.  WICD, however, was set up in 15
> > minutes and working perfectly out of the box--it is a Debian package.  I
> > suspect that many of Ubuntu/Kubuntu users out there would like to trade
> > in nm
> > for something better: well here is an opportunity to investigate.
> >
> > Oh, and BTW, my w32codecs-related media issues are completely resolved. 
> > I also switched to Firefox from Konqueror, it simply works better on a
> > couple
> > key websites I visit.  Now I am less dependent on M$--and that is a good
> > thing in my estimation.
> >
> > Larry
> >
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