[blfs-support] Wicd KDE Client problem-anyone?

2014-03-18 Thread Cliff McDiarmid
Hi Just completed another install of LFS and BLFS and decided this time to install the wicd client for KDE.   Good interface and looks, but I've a problem with using encryption and the scripts button.  The encryption drop down menu is unavailable and the scripts button produces the error: KA

Re: [blfs-support] Wicd users group

2013-02-08 Thread Kenno Han
Ok, got it. Thanks, everyone. On Feb 7, 2013 1:07 AM, "Simon Geard" wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:30 -0800, Kenno Han wrote: > > Just a simple question: what gid should I put for a group > > named 'users' which is used in wicd? > > I think the book should mention it. > > Whatever you like. Th

Re: [blfs-support] Wicd users group

2013-02-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:30 -0800, Kenno Han wrote: > Just a simple question: what gid should I put for a group > named 'users' which is used in wicd? > I think the book should mention it. Whatever you like. The actual numbers given in BLFS aren't important - they're just chosen to not conflict wi

Re: [blfs-support] Wicd users group

2013-02-06 Thread Ivailo
Maybe this will help: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/usersid.htm http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/users.html Both Arch Linux and Debian use '100' for the users group. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Kenno Han wrote: > Just a simple question: what gid should I put for a group

[blfs-support] Wicd users group

2013-02-06 Thread Kenno Han
Just a simple question: what gid should I put for a group named 'users' which is used in wicd? I think the book should mention it. Thank you, Kenno Han -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inform

[blfs-support] Wicd-1.7.2.4

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Clark
I have built Wicd-1.7.2.4 and wlan is working now ok. A couple of points. 1) I applied the fix return s.translate(None, table) outlined here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1097401 for wicd-gtk to work. I don't see this mentioned in the book? 2) There are complaints during comp

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-05-03 Thread rhubarbpieguy
On 05/02/2012 09:08 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 13:54:31 +0100 > rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 05/02/2012 07:31 AM, . . wrote: >>> pycairo-1.8.8 is the older version of py2cairo-1.10.0. It is the python >>> 2 version of pycairo. pycairo-1.10.0 is the python 3 version of

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 02 May 2012 13:54:31 +0100 rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/02/2012 07:31 AM, . . wrote: > > > > pycairo-1.8.8 is the older version of py2cairo-1.10.0. It is the python > > 2 version of pycairo. pycairo-1.10.0 is the python 3 version of cairo. > > py2cairo-1.10.0 works fine for me. >

[blfs-support] wicd

2012-05-02 Thread rhubarbpieguy
On 05/02/2012 07:31 AM, . . wrote: > > pycairo-1.8.8 is the older version of py2cairo-1.10.0. It is the python > 2 version of pycairo. pycairo-1.10.0 is the python 3 version of cairo. > py2cairo-1.10.0 works fine for me. > My problem wasn't with the GUI, it was with the network configuration. > It

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-30 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:44:02 +0100 rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm glad you found a solution. However, your post piqued my interest as > I vaguely remembered having a similar problem. So I recompiled wicd > (without error) using py2cairo, but wicd-gtk did not respond. I then > did the s

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-30 Thread rhubarbpieguy
On 04/29/2012 06:40 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:45:24 +0100 > Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > >> Wicd works fine for me, but I haven't tried the GTK frontend since I use the >> KDE frontend. >> Have you checked the logfile in /var/log/wicd? > Thanks, that was the key, it said: > did

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:45:24 +0100 Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > Wicd works fine for me, but I haven't tried the GTK frontend since I use the > KDE frontend. > Have you checked the logfile in /var/log/wicd? Thanks, that was the key, it said: did not find wireless_interface in configuration, setting d

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread rhubarbpieguy
On 04/29/2012 01:49 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:48:17 +0100 > rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Wicd works for me using LFS 7.1 and recent BLFS documentation. > Thanks for your reply, it's good to know that Wicd works for someone. > It would be nice to know why it doesn't wo

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Sunday 29 April 2012 11:28:11 Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I thought I'd try Wicd on my netbook, however, I can't get it to work. > When I run wicd-gtk it just displays "No wireless networks found". > However, if I (as root) run "iwlist wlan0 scan" it lists 5 networks > that can b

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:48:17 +0100 rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: > Wicd works for me using LFS 7.1 and recent BLFS documentation. Thanks for your reply, it's good to know that Wicd works for someone. It would be nice to know why it doesn't work for me but it doesn't spit out any useful error mes

Re: [blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread rhubarbpieguy
On 04/29/2012 05:28 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I thought I'd try Wicd on my netbook, however, I can't get it to work. > When I run wicd-gtk it just displays "No wireless networks found". > However, if I (as root) run "iwlist wlan0 scan" it lists 5 networks > that can be detected

[blfs-support] wicd

2012-04-29 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello Everyone, I thought I'd try Wicd on my netbook, however, I can't get it to work. When I run wicd-gtk it just displays "No wireless networks found". However, if I (as root) run "iwlist wlan0 scan" it lists 5 networks that can be detected. I can connect to my router fine with commands but I'd