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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it |
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> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and |
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> wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no |
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> wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config |
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> utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. |
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> There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to |
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> get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. |
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The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not |
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what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for |
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you when X is unavailable. |
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If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need |
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that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I distinctly remember forgetting that. |