Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 September 2013 15:27:33 Ric Moore did opine:

> 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

Point being is that what I have works, and the only reason this beast has 
wheels on it is so I can run it out on the front deck, drag out the air 
hose and give it a good dusting and cleaning about annually.  If it was 
portable and had to connect at anyplace I might go, yeah.  But this thing 
over the years has not accumulated more than 20 yards on its wheels.

Cheers, Gene
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