NETWORKING /etc/resolv.conf/ Ubuntu 10.0.4

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 15 18:50:31 UTC 2010


On 05/15/2010 11:34 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> You might try wicd instead. Note that wicd will remove NM in the
>> process, so you might want to download copies of NM directly first if
>> you do not have a wired connection handy:
> 
> Not exactly - unfortunately installing wicd doesn't remove nm [1] but 
> you should remove it anyway because otherwise they will fight for 
> controlling the network interfaces and none of them wins. But it is a 
> good idea to keep a copy of the nm packages nonetheless.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> [1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wicd/+bug/555403>
> 

Ah - thanks for that. Mine have been set up for quite some time & when
installed they did remove NM. So I suspect that this is fairly recent.
Thanks again & good catch.






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