Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:06:04
Message-Id: 20091115103313.6bfd7f7e@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to set up wireless lan - followed documentation by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:40:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > > > Is this a desktop machine?
4 > >
5 > > What difference does that make?
6 >
7 > It might be inconvenient to run the wicd client on a headless box
8
9 You could run the curses version over SSH, provided you could avoid
10 tripping over the various chickens and eggs :)
11
12 > > > If so, dump the net.* scripts and just run wicd.
13 > > >
14 > > > Why? Because it just works.
15 > >
16 > > Agreed, but on laptops and netbooks too.
17 >
18 > I see what you mean :-)
19 >
20 > I meant "desktop" generally as in "not a server"
21
22 ISWYM2 :)
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24
25 --
26 Neil Bothwick
27
28 Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but give him a case of
29 dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and
30 unidentifiable chunks of fish.

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