wicd for Intrepid and Hardy

[Karl F. Larsen]

Emil Payne wrote:
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> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     I was surprised that wicd is not available on Intrepid and Hardy 
>> from the normal repositories like it is on Jaunty.
>>
>>     So I went to sourceforge and found wicd and there I found the 
>> package wicd_1.5.9-all.deb and I d/l that and found I had to remove 
>> network-manager before the deb loader would work.
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>>     Google got me karl at cheap-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove 
>> network-manager network-manager-gnome. This then allowed the deb 
>> loader to load wicd and now it is my Internet WiFi software. It is so 
>> automatic I need to do nothing more to get WiFi and no keyrings to 
>> mess with :-)
>>
>> Karl
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> I'm not sure what happened, but I used Synaptic to install wicd and it 
> automatically removed Network Manager. The problem is that it removed 
> Network Manager and THEN found out there was a dependency error and 
> quit. So I was without anything and couldn't get to the Internet. I 
> had to use the windows machine and download wicd to an SD card and 
> then load it into the Ubuntu machine and install it that way to get 
> everything back. Shouldn't it have noticed the dependency error before 
> removing Network Manager?
>
> Jaunty on a Dell P4 with 384K memory =P
>
> Emil
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    I got into the condition with no network controller and it is scary! 
But I discovered a wired Internet just worked without a network. But 
when I used Synaptic it worked just fine on Jaunty on my laptop with 2gb 
of RAM.

Karl


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