Probably stupid question, but

[Ric Moore]

On 08/28/2013 02:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 13:48:22 Tom H did opine:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>> Since Network-Mangler is in dependency hell and cannot be removed, the
>>> chattr after fixing the real files right is a heck of a good idea.  It
>>> doesn't seem to mind not being able to overwrite a good file with its
>>> version of hog slop, dreamed up out of thin air.
>>
>> In what way does NM not work for you?
>
> It repeatedly tore down a working connection for me, in under a minute, I
> went through this loop about 10-12 times when I installed 12.04.2LTS on
> this machine, on a drive which is currently sitting on /dev/sdb.

Gene, you might try WICD. Last time I installed it, I could safely 
remove NM after, without the install pitching a fit. I think it worked 
better with olde timey hosts files. I just opened synaptic and wicd is 
available! For a change, NM is working for me, so I'm leaving it alone. Ric



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