Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-29 23:23:52 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Thursday, March 29, 2012 04:09:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Well, wicd has its own bugs, such as preventing a laptop from suspending. Hmm. That sucks. I'd like to debug why you're running into this. However I've been using wicd for

[OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:20:50 +0200, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: ... I could file bugs, but I have so many problems that I'm better off switching to NM. Well, that's constructive -- well done. I think you'll find that there are two groups of users (at least), one that is relatively

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-29 11:15:30 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: I'd only use either to make flipping between wireless networks something where I don't need to keep the comandline incantations in my head anyway, so the last thing I need is NM noticing that I've plugged or unplugged an ethernet cable, and

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-03-29 11:15:30 +0100 (+0100), Philip Hands wrote: [...] I'd only use either to make flipping between wireless networks something where I don't need to keep the comandline incantations in my head [...] And indeed, I just keep the commandline incantations in my head for ifupdown,

[OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, March 29, 2012 04:09:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-03-29 02:43:33 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: $ sudo apt-get remove network-manager* $ sudo apt-get install wicd wicd-curses wicd-gtk ^ wicd-kde ? $ wicd-curses