wireless!

[Roy Smith]

NoOp wrote:
> 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.
>   

My bad, I missed reading where he stated that you might have to add a
repo in the source.list file...  The old eyes don't seem to work as well
as they used to..  ;-)

-- 

Roy Smith
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Registered Linux User #488144
Registered Ubuntu User #26841


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