wireless broadcom stopped working in lucid

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Mon Sep 27 22:37:26 UTC 2010


Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>> I recently had a lot of problems with a Broadcom 4306 card (see
>>  my mail of 25-09 and the responses). Noop remarked that in Lucid wicd
>> when installed does not remove network manager and when you have both
>> running you can get problems.
> 
> I meant to reply to NoOp and forgot.
> 
> I saw a thread once (possibly on devel-discuss) where it was explained
> that nm and wicd no longer conflict (as packages) because you can use
> one to manage one connection and the other to manage another
> connection.
> 
Tom,
I just saw your mail- as I wanted to go to bed - but my experience is 
different (in Lucid). Wicd doesn't wabt to work as apparently there is 
some a conflict between NM and Wicd with respect to the use of the D-bus 
. At least the error in Wicd suggests that.
But I may be wrong.
Joep





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