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On 04/17/2009 09:08 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Daniel Dalton
>> <daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au <mailto:daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:54:32PM +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
>>     >    If for any reason you are not happy with NetworkManager 0.7.0
>>     ( psst..
>>     >    they say NM - 0.7.1 in Jaunty is awesome), then I thinkÂ
>>
>>     I'll certainly give it ago, and see what happens!
>>
>>     >    as Brian suggested, Wicd is the best.
>>     >
>>     >    In fact, if you do a lot of switching between SSIDs with
>>     various security
>>     >    modes like I do, I think Wicd is better than NM.
>>
>>     Thanks, guess I have to build from source for that?
>>
>>
>> No. I think you need to add a repo in the source.list file and just
>> apt-get it.
>> That's how I did it.
>> But I think the repo is available for only Interpid.
> 
> Really??? I did this in a terminal and here is the result:
> 
> roy at looneybin:~$ aptitude show wicd
> E: Unable to locate package wicd
> roy at looneybin:~$
> 
> The only third party repositories I have enabled are for Google,
> Griffith, and Medibuntu.  Now maybe if you've enabled the backport
> repository you'd find it, but it's not in the "stock" repositories.
> 
> 

With the wicd repository enabled:
$ aptitude show wicd

Package: wicd
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 1.5.9
Priority: extra
Section: extras
Maintainer: Adam Blackburn <compwiz18 at gmail.com>
Uncompressed Size: 1876k
Depends: python, python-gtk2, python-dbus | python2.4-dbus, wpasupplicant,
         python-glade2, wireless-tools
Conflicts: gtkwifi, network-manager, wifi-radar
Description: wired and wireless network manager
 Wicd supports wired and wireless networks, and capable of creating and
tracking
 profiles for both.  It has a template-based wireless encryption system,
which
 allows the user to easily add encryption methods used. It ships with some
 common encryption types, such as WPA 1 and 2 and WEP. Wicd will
automatically
 connect at startup to any preferred network within range.