[ltp] T61 Gutsy > Hardy upgrade almost fixed stuff

[Daniel Castro]

Not a big fan of Network Manager myself either!!!


I use WICD, awesome results for me.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=527488

Even if you run your own wpa_supplicant scripts on the terminal this 
will not mess with your connection as NM does...

Cheers!

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Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin

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Phil Shotton wrote:
> Likewise - use it all the time. Sometimes it is slow to update (moving 
> laptop from home to work for instance) - I would love to understand 
> the process by which it does this so I can speed it up a bit. Doing 
> "sudo iwlist scan" seems to nudge it along but sometimes disabling and 
> then re-enabling wireless is needed. That said, 90% of the time it 
> works without effort.
>
> Phil - T60p with Atheros AR5418 wireless
>
> Peter Frühberger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM, David A. Desrosiers 
>> <david.a.desrosiers@gmail.com <mailto:david.a.desrosiers@gmail.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Donald P Kong <dpkong@pc.jaring.my
>>     <mailto:dpkong@pc.jaring.my>> wrote:
>>
>>         network-manager should still see wireless networks available
>>         if you are
>>         connected to wired LAN, unless the wifi card is disabled/module
>>         unloaded.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Network Manager is non-functional in Hardy, just as it was in
>>     Gutsy. Avoid it if you want functioning wired or wireless 
>> networking.
>>
>>
>> This is defenitely not true.
>>
>> It is working as it did in gutsy before - without any issues.
>>
>> I use it at home (WPA), at university (vpnc plugin) and on an other 
>> computer for wired connection.
>>
>> What are the problems you are having?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> PS: If it does not see any devices check /etc/network/interfaces to 
>> only include the lo device
>>
>>
>> -- 
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