wicd for Intrepid and Hardy

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 24 21:29:24 UTC 2009


On 05/24/2009 11:09 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I was surprised that wicd is not available on Intrepid and Hardy 
> from the normal repositories like it is on Jaunty.
> 
>     So I went to sourceforge and found wicd and there I found the 
> package wicd_1.5.9-all.deb and I d/l that and found I had to remove 
> network-manager before the deb loader would work.
> 
>     Google got me karl at cheap-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove 
> network-manager network-manager-gnome. This then allowed the deb loader 
> to load wicd and now it is my Internet WiFi software. It is so automatic 
> I need to do nothing more to get WiFi and no keyrings to mess with :-)
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

*Please* spend some time on the wicd site!
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
*Read* the "Installing Wicd in Ubuntu" section!







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