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Package: wicd
Version: 1.5.9-5
Severity: normal
Tired of NetworkManager's inability to handle multi-user OSes, I tried
wicd and am generally satisfied. But the UI for WPA connections is just
confusing. Here's a sample scenario to see what I mean:
- click on the applet to open "Wicd Manager".
- see the network I want to use (it says it's using WPA).
- I click "connect" and rather than prompting for a password, it complains
that this networks requires encryption to be enabled.
- I think to myself "how on earth can they distribute a default config that
doesn't enable encruption".
- I look through the manpages to figure out where I can enable encryption.
- I get tired of it after a while, switch over to Google, with just as little
luck.
- Again, I get tired of it, and go back to the "Wicd Manager" to see what
else I can do there.
- I finally notice the little triangle next to my network's name.
- I click on it, hopeful.
- Disappointment: it only lets me say whether to connect automatically,
whether I want to run scripts, and finally access to advanced settings.
- I think to myself "enabling encryption for a WPA network would clearly
never be considered 'advanced', and especially not more advanced than
running scripts".
- Yet, curiosity finally overpowers me and I go look inside "advanced
settings" where I finally see how to "enablke encryption"
(i.e. set the password).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages wicd depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6 DHCP client
ii ethtool 6+20090307-1 display or change Ethernet device
ii iproute 20090324-1 networking and traffic control too
ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-dbus 0.83.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-glade2 2.14.1-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-support 1.0.3 automated rebuilding support for P
ii wireless-tools 29-1.1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.9-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
wicd recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wicd suggests:
ii pm-utils 1.2.5-2 utilities and scripts for power ma
-- no debconf information
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fixed 532046 1.6.0-1
thanks
Hello Stefan,
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:31:09 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> [..]
> - I click "connect" and rather than prompting for a password, it complains
> that this networks requires encryption to be enabled.
I believe this is still there on 1.6.0 (didn't try it yet), but...
> [..]
> - I finally notice the little triangle next to my network's name.
Now the single networks are no more expandable, and you get two nice
"Disconnect" and "Properties" button.
> [..]
> - Disappointment: it only lets me say whether to connect automatically,
> whether I want to run scripts, and finally access to advanced settings.
Now it's called "Properties", I believe it is far more understandable.
Please, try out wicd 1.6.0-1 from experimental, if you wish :)
Kindly,
David
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