WICD and KNetworkManager

[Derek Broughton]

O. Sinclair wrote:

> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> I recently bought a Dell 1525 Inspiron laptop and am planning on setting
>> up a wireless router at home. I would also like to be able to use
>> 'hotspots' and wireless connections at friend's homes.
>> 
>> I read on this list that WICD is superior to KNetworkManager. I also read
>> an interesting article about WICD [http://www.linux.com/feature/118224]
>> where one of the comments was that one should uninstall KNetworkManager
>> as it conflicts with WICD.
>> 
>> Any comments or recommendations/suggestions?
>> 
> The WICD installer will normally uninstall Knetworkmanager 

It will?  I had to force it...

> for you as it 
> will otherwise be problems. I prefer WICD over Knetworkmanager for many
> reasons, one being the ability to set up and save profiles for wired
> networks.

I just removed it and reinstalled network-manager.  The thing that had been
increasingly annoying me about network-manager is that it only occasionally
ever attempted to automatically connect to a (previously known) wireless
network when it became available.  Since I live off-grid, and my power goes
out at least once a week - much more at this time of year - my wireless
network can often disappear for a while.

Well, wicd never tried to reconnect to my _wired_ network when I brought the
laptop back into the office, where wicd had already been configured and
used.  That's just not worth the trouble.
-- 
derek