On Thursday, March 08, 2012 08:01:23 PM, Luther Woodrum wrote: > Problem solved! > > Doh! > > Keep hitting the tab key until <Ok> lights up. > > Then enter works and does the right thing.
Ugh! Usually the "OK" choice is automatically selected. What the hell. > On another note, I installed ubuntu 11.10 anyway, just to see > the later level. Of course wifi stopped working. I've heard of several people who have run into that problem. Not sure which package you'd need to install to get the correct firmware; Ubuntu and Debian handle this particular thing quite differently. > I installed wicd via apt-get. > Then I uninstalled network-manager via apt-get remove. I do the same. I greatly prefer wicd over network-manager. > There is no list of applications in ubuntu 11.10, so I > executed wicd & from an xterm. > > wicd menu came up, and I configured wpa2 with a preshared key. > After disconnecting the eth0 wired connection, which was still > present, connecting to the wireless interface works fine. > > Did not need urwid. python-urwid is only a dependency if you install wicd-curses, i.e. the wicd ANSI color text client. The text client comes in handy if ever you need to use your computer from text console and X breaks and you need wireless. Mostly I install it just to have the peace of mind that I could, rather than really running into that situation much. [Has happened on occasion, though.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef May 2 - May 2012 Meeting Jun 6 - June 2012 Meeting
