on my wife's Acer 3000 laptop.
It took about an hour but on rebooting her Lucid KDE 4.4 desktop came up well, albeit with few minor problems.
I hadn't realized it but BOTH knm-runtime (including the network-manager-* files) AND wicd were installed, and both were showing a network connection in the system tray (with the same IP of course). I fired up Synaptic and removed wicd and its files. The network stayed up.
I fired up Thunderbird to check her email. It downloaded email fine. She wanted to write an email but when she tried to send it, it failed to go. Turns out that the update changed her smtp authorization from none to name and password. I reset that and her email flew off into networld. I clicked FireFox to check it and got the spinning balls routine... the network had gone down. I right moused on the network-manager system tray icon and clicked on my AP icon. The connection reestablished. Started browsing for a while, then quit FF and started TB again. Spinning balls again, the network was down, again. The knm/network-manager was intermittently dropping the connection. The more throughput the more often the failure. I re-installed wicd and wicd-cli, and all associated files. Restarting the network with wicd the connection would fail when wicd sent the password to the wireless. My ASCII password was being sent as a string of HEX characters, each letter represented by its hex representation. I had seen that before and immediately uninstalled knm-runtime and all of the network-manager-* files, and rebooted. When her desktop came up wicd had already brought up the network and it stayed connected.
All-in-all is was a beautiful and very easy upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Well done, devs!!!
It took about an hour but on rebooting her Lucid KDE 4.4 desktop came up well, albeit with few minor problems.
I hadn't realized it but BOTH knm-runtime (including the network-manager-* files) AND wicd were installed, and both were showing a network connection in the system tray (with the same IP of course). I fired up Synaptic and removed wicd and its files. The network stayed up.
I fired up Thunderbird to check her email. It downloaded email fine. She wanted to write an email but when she tried to send it, it failed to go. Turns out that the update changed her smtp authorization from none to name and password. I reset that and her email flew off into networld. I clicked FireFox to check it and got the spinning balls routine... the network had gone down. I right moused on the network-manager system tray icon and clicked on my AP icon. The connection reestablished. Started browsing for a while, then quit FF and started TB again. Spinning balls again, the network was down, again. The knm/network-manager was intermittently dropping the connection. The more throughput the more often the failure. I re-installed wicd and wicd-cli, and all associated files. Restarting the network with wicd the connection would fail when wicd sent the password to the wireless. My ASCII password was being sent as a string of HEX characters, each letter represented by its hex representation. I had seen that before and immediately uninstalled knm-runtime and all of the network-manager-* files, and rebooted. When her desktop came up wicd had already brought up the network and it stayed connected.
All-in-all is was a beautiful and very easy upgrade from Karmic to Lucid. Well done, devs!!!
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