Wireless on custom live CD not working

[Tony Baechler]

I'm changing the subject for clarity.

On 4/9/2016 1:25 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I'm going to catch hell for this but I'm old school on this...
>
> Nuke network-mangler and if you want dhcp to handle its addressing, try
> wicd, I've been a lot more successfull with it than N-M.


How do you set this up? I have both on my custom live CD I've been working 
on, based on Ubuntu Wily core. The only way I can get wireless to sometimes 
work and DHCP to assign addresses is with NM. I really don't like NM and 
would prefer an alternative, but I haven't found anything. If I remove NM, I 
have to run dhclient by hand. I have wicd-curses installed, but I got 
reports that it can't find the wireless network, even though it apparently 
works on standard Debian. I'm obviously doing something wrong but I don't 
know what and I don't have wireless here to test. Are there better 
alternatives to NM which will automatically configure the network with DHCP 
and detect wireless? The CD isn't running X and is intended for the console 
and command line. It's designed for the blind and comes up talking. I can 
provide a list of installed packages and download links if interested.