WICD

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 06:07:15 am O. Sinclair wrote:
> the network-manager alternative WICD has been mentioned on and off on
> the list. Anyone using it over Knetworkmanager and can compare and give
> some info on how to install, make it autorun and if it looks like ....
> in KDE?
>
> Sinclair

Just download the deb files from http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
(follow the links) and run dpkg -i as usual.
(sudo dpkg -i whatever.deb)

I'm not sure its actually designed to run in KDE specifically but it does 
work.
It automatically installs an entry in your kmenu under "Internet" (on 
Kubuntu).
If you click it you'll see your active NICs.  
If you click on the SSID (for example) you'll get a drop down list of things 
you can configure for that connection.  And, Yes, you can have two 
connections running at the same time, which Network Manager will not allow 
you to do.
It also keeps up with the SSID's of the networks, and their related keys, so 
that the next time you're in that area you can just connect right up again.
It installs, from what I can tell, Daemons in the /etc/init.d directory, so it 
starts before KDE or Gnome to fire up the NICs.

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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!