[Jaunty] Heads Up upgrade disables Wicd

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Just upgraded my test machine from Intrepid to Jaunty (9.10) using the
> Alternate CD. In order to conserve my DSL bandwidth I elected to not
> have the upgrade go out and get updates from the internet, but instead
> install only from the CD. That all went pretty well with the exeption
> that when I rebooted I found no network. wicd was not working - at all.
>
> The only option that I had was to install 'sudo apt-get remove wicd' and
> install network-manager from the CD directly. Once I got my network
> connection back (yest I know I could have enabled from the CLI), I then
> did my updates & reinstalled wicd. That's not an issue if you also have
> a wired connection, but if you only have a wireless connection, I
> recommend temporarily reinstalling network-manager first, making sure it
> works, and then upgrading. Either that or allowing the internet updates
> during the upgrade... perhaps that will keep wicd in place?
>

I know it is not the way they suggest, but I feel there is nothing
like a fresh install. It even smells different, like a new car.

If you just happen to have 10Gigs available in your hd (12 for you G.)
or even less, put your new system there, sharing the /home partition.
It's foolproof (**I'm not referring to you NoOp**, I'm just
wandering), you can go back anytime.

Of course you will have to fiddle with Grub and reinstall your
software of choice, but then you may realize that, anyway, you
probably did not need all that stuff.

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