[Jaunty] Heads Up upgrade disables Wicd

[NoOp]

On 04/27/2009 10:15 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:24 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Just upgraded my test machine from Intrepid to Jaunty (9.10)
> 
> You meant 9.04 right?

No... I used Karl's version :-)

>> using the
>> Alternate CD. In order to conserve my DSL bandwidth I elected to not
>> have the upgrade go out and get updates from the internet, but instead
>> install only from the CD. That all went pretty well with the exeption
>> that when I rebooted I found no network. wicd was not working - at all.
> 
> Thanks for sharing - I'll keep that in mind.
> 
> FWIW, I've been using Network Mangler in Jaunty for a couple of weeks now,
> I've come this close to replacing it several times with wicd.  It
> looks pretty, but it acts flakey.
> It takes forever to decide a wireless network it was connected to
> yesterday isn't actually working still,
> and I can't for the life of me figure out when/why it picks my wired
> static IP entry before/after my wired
> DHCP network entry, and then when I had to add a PPPoE entry I ended
> up deleting the wired networks
> and disabling the wireless one just to get it to try it.
> 
> I had vague hopes that the update fairy would fix it, but alas, no luck.
> I'm sure it's days in my household are once again numbered.
> 
> Brian
> 

I upgraded my old laptop last night; as a test I unplugged the wired,
left the Broadcom PCMCIA adapter active & answered yes to allow the
update to get added files from the internet. To my surprise it did
download everything it needed, left wicd in place - updated it & even
updated the Broadcom B43 driver files. As a precaution, I'd saved a copy
of he wicd_1.5.9-2_all.deb[1] file on the drive. Also found a bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wicd/+bug/353228
[On upgrade to Jaunty beta, wicd is removed]
William Grant marks it as invalid, yet:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wicd
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wicd

I've had zero issues with wicd in Jaunty (after reinstalling on the
first machine), so you might want to give it a go.

[1] You can get it here:
http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/w/wicd/