package dependencies

[Tony Arnold]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 20:09 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> you just need to manually configure your network card using
>> System->Administration->Networking. 
> 
> That depends. Your method only works with open and WEP-ecrypted
> networks, but it won't with WPA. One can dick around with wpa-supplicant
> manually, but IMHO it is simpler to just download the network-manager +
> dependencies somewhere else.

OK. Having never used WPA in any shape or form, I didn't know that! Thanks.

Regards,
Tony.
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