wicd will not work when network-manager is purged
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| One Hundred Papercuts |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| wicd (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: wicd
I prefer wicd over network-manager mainly because I use dwm and not gnome etc... Network-manager seem to only have an applet program to control the network connections, which don't work so well in dwm.
I did a complete reinstall of Lucid (not upgrade), I installed wicd, wicd-daemon etc... and removed all network-manager and also purged the network-manager packages. After doing this I no longer seemed to have a wireless device in the computer. My computer is an Asus Eee 1000H. I could not find the device with ifconfig and no wireless networks where found (obviously). I then installed network-manager again and it found the device and networks. I then just removed network-manager but didn't purge it. And now wicd can find the wireless device.
My point is that wicd should be self-sufficient. It should not relay on that you have uninstalled network-manager but not purged it...
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 21 10:00:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wicd
| PrebenR (randhol) wrote | #1 |
| PaJoe (flhtcu) wrote | #2 |
| Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote | #3 |
| Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in wicd (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Tof (tof-demzcur) wrote | #5 |
| Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
My wife's Dell 1420N was working well with Wicd for a couple years .Two days ago when we had the normal Kubuntu 10.04 updates, it's using wicd-daemon 1.7.0+ds1-2 + linux-image-
We tried totally removing everything associated with the knetwork manager and network manager and reinstalled wicd but we still get the "bad password" error. It is interesting because removing everything related to network manger fixed it before. In the end we needed to use the gnome network manager and run nm-applet at the KDE startup in order to use the wireless.