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

[andy]

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. Synaptic suggested I install
the meta package instead of the generic, but I just did the generic as
you suggested and it seems to have worked. 

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:10 -0700, Ryan Cresawn wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> What kind of audio problems are you having?  I have Gutsy with
> hda-intel audio driver in ALSA.  I had to install the package
> "linux-backports-modules-2.6.22-14-generic" to get it working.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> On Nov 7, 2007 3:00 PM, andy <andyjones at cox.net> wrote:
> > 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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