wicd - better wireless network manager than NetworkManager?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 15:07:51 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:40 PM, yonas Abraham <yabraham2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Valent Turkovic
>
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I listened to Linux Reality podcast and I heard there about wicd
>  >  [1]. They have mentioned it a few times and always in context that it
>  >  is a much better wireless network manager that gnome NetworkManager. I
>  >  can't test it because there is no wich in fedora repositories so I'm
>  >  interested if someone has already tested this app and what do you
>  >  think about it?
>  >
>  >  Cheers,
>  >  Valent.
>  >
>  >  [1] http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
>
>  I have been using wicd starting from F7. It feels much stable that NM.
>  I used to constantly get disconnected when I was using NM. It is easy
>  to make an rpm package for it.
>
>  in F8, NM refused to get connected to my WEP encrypted wireless.
>
>  /yonas

Any chance you make a package for us who are packaging-impaired :)

Valent.

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