I also would argue that wicd is fairly less efficient than network manager. I've tested it recently on an fresh Wheezy-XFCE but at school I wasn't able to connect and had to replace it with n-m.
Cheers Giorgio On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:18:12PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Petter Reinholdtsen 2010-07-10] > > * The wicd package is installed (instead of network-manager). Not > > sure if this is a good idea or not, but the report from Extremadura > > made me put it in there as a test. > > Based on todays tests, I am starting to suspect it might be better to > use network-manager. > > I installed a roaming workstation using PXE in a Debian Edu/Squeeze > network today, and the installation worked fairly well (partition size > issues - updated d-e-install with new sizes). After installation, I can > log in with the first user, and a local home directory is created and > used after I log in for the second time. I can disconnect the network > cable and still log in using cached credentials. All good so far. > > But, when I try to connect to the wireless networks around me, wicd do > not see anything. I had to manually configure wicd to use wlan0 as the > wireless interface to be able to see the wireless networks. And when I > try to select the non-encrypted network I want to use, I am unable to > get any IP address. > > After removing the wicd package and installing the network-manager-kde > instead to get a KDE panel widget to control network-manager, I am able > to connect to the wireless network. > > Anyone want to debug wicd in this setup, or should we just switch to > network-manager on Roaming Workstation profiles? Possible advantages: > > - It will discover wireless interfaces without any configuration. > > - Roaming Workstation will use network manager the same way Standalone > (and all other profiles?) do it now. > > Possible problems > > - Roaming Workstation will not work for new users because the network > is not enabled at boot but only after first login, and thus no > connection to LDAP and Kerberos can be made. > > The problems I see might be because wicd and network-manager are > confusing each other. I did not have much time to debug. > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Ufficio: +41 91 735 62 48 Cellulare: +41 79 629 20 63 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
