Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 September 2013 08:06:55 Ric Moore did opine:

> On 09/03/2013 04:55 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On 09/03/2013 03:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> >> That's why I suggested wicd in place of NM. It seems to work
> >> friendlier with /etc/hosts. Ric
> > 
> > any time I had a problem with NM ( on a laptop) I installed wicd and
> > it worked...
> 
> Gene, there you have it! TWO!! opinions that you may or may not take to
> the bank. In my book, wicd is the shizznitz. Heh, what do you have to
> lose? <grins hugely> Ric

Well, while this old lucid install is running the mangler, anything it 
might want to do is foiled with the chattr +i applied to the files, and has 
been since in mid 2011 when I installed Lucid LTS on this box.

So its been emasculated & castrated here.  I would sincerely like to see it 
nuked from the distro's choice of networking tools, chased off the property 
and told not to return ever until it can recognize a working network and 
leave it the hell alone.

And thats my final $0.02, but adjust for inflation since 1934.

WiCD does seem to work better, and I believe that is what's on my laptop, a 
Mint 14 install IIRC. That even works with the friggin radio when I can 
make dd-wrt's dhcp-server work.  But since thats spotty, its hardcoded in 
the hosts files now too.

Cheers, Gene
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