WICD

[O. Sinclair]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for that info! One thing though after reading a bit in the rather 
inactive wicd user forum; it is not really written for KDE but for Gnome 
  Ubuntu, that much I managed to figure out.

cheers,
Sinclair