[Tfug] Anybody try "wicd" as a replacement for Network Manager?

[andy]

seems to work for me too Jim, thanks for the great post!
with the WiFi working I'm as inclined to state how suck a** Gutsy is.

Now if I can just fix the audio problems.

A


On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 20:19 -0700, Jim March wrote:
> I had heard there were issues with Network Manager in Ubuntu in
> general and Gutsy specifically.  Hadn't had any problems until NM
> completely tossed it's cookies on me today - literally vanished and
> managed to do so in a fashion that left me unable to connect wired or
> WiFi to *anything*, even via manual configuration.  Not good!
> 
> I brought my rig up with a Feisty LiveCD first to prove my hardware
> was OK.  It was.  OK, did some digging, found other trouble reports -
> and people who were ripping NM out wholesale and replacing it with
> "Wicd".  Managed to get both the 1.3.1 (stable) and 1.3.4) ("testing")
> .deb files downloaded and copied to an external USB disk.
> 
> Brought up my crippled Gutsy and installed the 1.3.4 and dayum, it's
> all BACK.  I have wired and WiFi again.  With some interesting
> goodies: I can detect WiFi nets that don't broadcast SSIDs and can
> detect what type of security they have :).  It also has the ability to
> auto-execute scripts on net connect (even do so depending on which net
> it attaches to) and the ability to absolutely select a given WiFi net
> (or wired of course) as default - and it'll stick with it.
> 
> It feels a bit "Geekier" than NM and a "granny type" user would need
> more handholding - but not by THAT much.  Initial setup means running
> iwconfig to determine what hardware is around and picking that from a
> Wicd pull-down menu, and putting "/opt/wicd/tray.py" as a startup item
> somewhere (under "sessions" in Ubuntu).  Should work for Dapper on up.
> 
> Instructions at:
> 
> http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/linux/2007/10/18/ubuntu-gutsy-wireless-help
> 
> http://www.ossgeeks.co.uk/?p=166
> 
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/features.php
> 
> Wicd:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=194573
> 
> So far I'd call this highly recommended.
> 
> Jim
> 
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