Probably stupid question, but

[Ric Moore]

On 09/04/2013 08:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

Well then, put wicd on your desktop! If it'll work for you, that would 
make a strong case for it's usage. :) Ric



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