On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:42:51 -0700 "chris (fool) mccraw" <gen...@gmail.com> dijo:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 23:52, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > The reason I need the GUI is to be able to find wireless networks when > > I am away from home, select one, and connect to it. It is far faster to > > do so from the GUI (assuming I can get it to work) than from the > > command line. Furthermore, I am soon going to upgrade to Jaunty, and in > > Jaunty the GUI works much better. I know that from trying the live CD > > of the release candidate. But at the moment I am not sure that the GUI > > package is even installed. > anyway as you say, scanning for new networks and autoconnecting to > one-of-the-many-i've-already-setup is way easier through NM, so i > finally gave up and bowed to the dark side of letting that complex > software-stuff do its business. Network Manager has always been a PITA. I went to wicd because the NM GUI could never find any of the available networks. Maybe once in a while it would drop down a list. Usually I had to go to the command line to scan and then connect. Moreover, NM requires you to "unlock" it before you can do anything. It's time consuming and I don't need that much security. Saturday I burned the release candidate of Jaunty and when I was at the Clinic the next day I booted it up live. Even though Free Geek had ethernet cables all over the table, I did not plug one in. As soon as Jaunty was running I noticed an icon in the Gnome panel that looked like a network icon with bars. It had a red X on it. I clicked on it and down dropped a list of all available wireless networks, complete with a percentage for signal strength. I selected Free Geek and in a matter of ten seconds I was connected. I stayed connected without a problem for the next four hours. I'm thinking that some serious work went into NM between Intrepid and Jaunty. So I have been futzing and tweaking getting ready for the dist-upgrade to Jaunty this Thursday. And that meant I wanted to get NM working properly. I reinstalled it (which uninstalled wicd), but I failed to install all the pieces. Larry gave me the tip and now it is running fine. I just hope I don't have to go someplace where I have to connect with wireless before Thursday. If you want a simple GUI for network connections I recommend wicd. It served me well for a couple of years. And if NM turns out to be still broken after the dist-upgrade on Thursday, I will reinstall it for sure. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
