>> So I am sat in a cafe thinking "TTY's not so bad, I've got w3m installed >> and I just want to read the news anyway..." and that's where I came >> unstuck. Could I figure out how to connect to a network from the CLI?
I ditched NetworkManager for wicd, which does come with a wicd-curses interface. Works very well for me. It _does not_ work properly if networkmanager is also installed. The logs and debug messages you get if both are installed do not make it easy to identify the root cause (that networkmanager is also trying to manage the connections). That bit me when I installed kubuntu on top of ubuntu, which pulled networkmanager again: it puzzled me for quite a while. Never had a problem with it since, and I use it on both my netbook and the desktop (both connecting wirelessly, but only the netbook connecting to cafes' networks for obvious reasons). YMMV, -marco- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish