Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome related questions
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:58:48
Message-Id: 201011141758.45754.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome related questions by Neil Bothwick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 13:13 on Sunday 14 November 2010, Neil
2 Bothwick did opine thusly:
3
4 > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:43:36 +0200, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
5 > > 1 - what should i use for a gui manager for the network ? ( especially
6 > > for wireless ? )
7 >
8 > Wicd - no question.
9
10 Seconded.
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12 wicd completely, totally, awesomely JustWorks(tm) in much the same way that
13 NetworkManager doesn't work.
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15 wicd now has gtk and kde frontends as well as curses and plain old cli. You
16 will have to remove all existing networking stuff in /etc/conf.d/net* (except
17 net.lo)
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21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com