On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:29, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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. weird, that unlocky-bit must be a gnome-ism (or something). it does not do that in xubuntu 8.10 where i am always logged in as a nonprivileged user. it "just works". > 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. could be. i have to admit that i have had to do the manually-scan thing usually, though yesterday in the park it "just worked", telling me there were a bunch of available new-to-it networks for the first time ever. > 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. wicd will definitely be my fallback if nm ever fails me (hopefully not while i'm out of range of another network!) if i were smart, i'd just install it now just so it'd be on the laptop already... _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug