Wireless problem with 10.4 beta

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/06/2010 08:45 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 April 2010, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>    
>>>
>>>        
>> Yes! Non-Intel chipsets worked with 9.10, but most won't with 10.04. I'm
>> sure it will get fixed.
>>      
> Welll    now.......     just found the problem....
>
> Network-Manager was still running....  and I think it should have been removed
> when I installed wicd.
>
> Network manager brought up its own copy of wpa-supplicant  which was confusing
> things...   Once I stopped NM, and killed the extra wpa-supplicate,  things
> are fine.
>
> I have now removed network-manager altogether.
>    

Thanks for this Bruce! MAYBE I can get at least some of the non-Intel 
chipped
laptops to work! My assumption was that NM used the same wpa-supplicate, so
there can be the problem with wicd.

Fred

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