jeff wrote: > Paul David Mena wrote: >> I managed to get WICD working under FREEEEE by not exactly following the >> instructions found at >> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=fedora. Long story short: >> download and untar the tarball, then follow the instructions in the >> INSTALL file, namely: >> >> yum install python-devel >> python setup.py configure >> python setup.py install >> >> Make sure NetworkManager is turned off like so: >> >> chkconfig NetworkManager off >> >> reboot, at which time you should see the wcid service start up shortly >> after eth0 comes up. To bring up the butt-ugly-but-functional GUI, type: >> >> wcid-client & >> >> Starting up wired, wireless and VPN networks are all fairly intuitive. >> And it works! >> >> Assuming I can duplicate any of the above, I promise to immortalize it >> in a wiki... > > I built a (new) package of this now for FREEEEE. Tested. Fails. :) > > yum install wicd > > > Right now it's complaining: "Couldn't find graphical sudo program" (this > when > I'm running it as root, no less). I wonder which ones it will take. gar. > > Anyway, mostly there but i dont think i'll look at it more for a day or so, > so > if you figure that out let me know heh. Could just be missing dependency. > > > freeeee-package empower <--we'll see if that one will work.
Well, i haven't tested the sudo part yet (it only comes up if wicd daemon isn't running), but I have it going now with the latest package. Looks quite nice. If this thing is stable we'll use this for sure. Funny the thread is *without* a GUI, but in the end it's what we got. heh. -Jeff _______________________________________________ blag-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/blag-users
