package dependencies

[Tony Arnold]

cyclothunder wrote:
> hi!
> 
> I've installed ubuntu 6.10 on my pc at work. now i need to get my wifi 
> card to work and for that i need network manager. i have no way of 
> getting this pc to Internet by other means. So at home I've downloaded 
> network manager.deb but when i tried to install at work on ubuntu it 
> needs other files (dependencies). how do i get network manager with all 
> full dependencies ?

You don't need network-manager to get on the net, you just need to
manually configure your network card using
System->Administration->Networking.

Once on the net, you can then install network manager.

Regards,
Tony.
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