wicd for Intrepid and Hardy

[Karl Larsen]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/24/2009 11:09 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>     I was surprised that wicd is not available on Intrepid and Hardy 
>> from the normal repositories like it is on Jaunty.
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>>     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.
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>>     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
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> *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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Why? I have wicd up and running on all three of my computers, so I am 
done. They all just work!


Karl