Network-Manager and 9.04

[Mike McGinn]

On Friday 25 September 2009 16:36:18 Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:39 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> > Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > >   I have been here before, and just need to recall what I did.
> > > If you load NM from the LiveCD it works with just minor
> > > keyring problems. But if you replace NM with wicd, and then
> > > back to NM, you can't get NM to connect!
> > >
> > >   I have tried many things but none work. Anyone have an idea
> > > how to fix this?
> 
> Have you tried a "sudo apt-get purge wicd", then "sudo apt-get install
> --install-recommends network-manager-gnome"? You would probably need to
> have a liveCD added as a repository source...either that, or you could
> just be able to install NM over wicd and have it removed because of
> conflicts...
> 
> > >   I should not be changing the thing that gets me the Internet.
> 
> lol. I discovered that as well.
> 
> > Stick with wicd
> >
> > NM has sucked for years.
> 
> I have had the exact opposite experience... NM has always worked
> flawlessly for me since I started using ubuntu around 6.06 (though I've
> never actually used wicd, so i guess its not EXACT opposite...). afaik,
> NM is probably the only app that I've never managed to break. Why do you
> say that NM sucks? I'm curious to try and break it now if it does indeed
> have flaws that I just haven't yet discovered.
> 
I have had problems consistently with NM. I use my laptop at work, at home and 
when I travel. At work I have a static IP address, NM does not handle that 
well. Wicd will auto detect and connect to wireless networks as I move around, 
it auto connects to my home wireless with a static IP, it auto connects to my 
church network with DHCP, it auto connects to other networks as I move around 
- I only have to set them once and forget it.

NM can do none of those for me.

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