wicd doesn't work

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: wicd doesn't work
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3:56 PM
> Chris Mohler wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dirk Freitag
> <unreal.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Nils Kassube wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Dirk Freitag wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> I have actually been reluctant to install
> wicd myself.  People say it
> >>>> is the way to go, but the fact that it
> removes the default network
> >>>> manager makes me wary of it, since the
> default app works fine for me.
> >>>>         
> >>> I tried wicd and for me it works as well as
> networkmanager. But it works
> >>> different because it connects to the network
> even if there is no user
> >>> logged in. Networkmanager only connects after
> a user is logged in. You
> >>> may prefer one version or the other.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>>  If I did decide to go with wicd, I wonder
> if I uninstall it, will
> >>>> the default network manager be
> reinstalled?
> >>>>         
> >>> If you have wicd installed and want your
> networkmanager back you can
> >>> simply install networkmanager. It will then
> remove wicd.
> >>>       
> >
> > Before traveling, I download the latest NM & wicd
> .deb files.
> > Sometimes it's useful to toggle using one or the
> other - I can think
> > of one case in particular where I could not connect to
> a hotel's
> > network with NM, but wicd had no trouble.  If wifi is
> the only
> > connection available, and it won't work with one
> or the other, then
> > it's quite useful to have the packages already on
> hard disk.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >   
>     Never NEVER try and reinstall NM AFTER wcid!! The whole
> thing is 
> screwed up now. Thank god it is Jaunty and I will
> re-install the entire 
> system again and NEVER try wicd again.
> 
> Karl
> 
>Karl, you don't have to reinstall NM after wicd.  Ever since I installed wicd, no more network connection issues at all even on wifi, so why reinstall NM.  Even so I doubt there is an issues in doing so.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net