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    I love Wicd

    I am currently in a Holiday Inn in Lakewood Colorado USA. The have free wireless internet access. Guess what! I could not get connected. I didn't have any network managers installed, as is usual for me, and I have been able to connect to my home network painlessly without them. I was able to connect by booting to XP. But everything I want to do is in my Xubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 system. Including all my saved passwords and email settings. I tried everything. edited the interfaces file trying to guess at what I needed to do. Didn't work. So finally, I decided to download the Wicd deb file to XP. I opened Xubuntu, opened my file manager, navigated to my XP partition, which I have mounted, located the file double clicked on it and it opened in the package installer, installed it, and as soon as I ran it I was connected. Doesn't get better than that. Kudos to the wicd developers.
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    #2
    Re: I love Wicd

    Except that it can't do WPA2 Enterprise with TKIP.

    other than that it's great
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      #3
      Re: I love Wicd

      does it allow to configure system to connect to wifi network at startup ? I mean without a user login in ?
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        #4
        Re: I love Wicd

        Yes.
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          Re: I love Wicd

          I tried this, but it told me there was a conflict with network-manager that was already installed. So I uninstalled it, but got the same result.
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            Re: I love Wicd

            Originally posted by jonesey
            I tried this, but it told me there was a conflict with network-manager that was already installed. So I uninstalled it, but got the same result.
            During wicd installation the system informs that network manager must be removed first and asks to confirm the uninstalling in the terminal by typing "Y". I would suggest to run the installation again and watch out for this point. If this does not help please describe how you install the wicd and where exactly you get the conflicting message.
            Kubuntu user since August 2007&nbsp; <br /><br />CPU : Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, E6550-2,33GHz,1333MHz,4MBL2 BOX<br />RAM : DDR 2, 2x 512 MB . 800MHz . CL 5,0&nbsp; Kingston<br />VGA : GAINWARD Nvidia 8500GT 256MB, SilentFX, GDDR3, 2xDVI, PCI-E<br />Karmic Koala 32-bit
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              Re: I love Wicd

              Hey, I also wishing to use wicd. But I'm not sure whether there is support for mobile broadband connections in it.
              Can anyone tell me is it possible to use mobile connections in wicd

              There app description only say they support wired and wireless connections.

              Thanks.
              --------<br />Kasun Gajasinghe,<br />University of Moratuwa,<br />Sri Lanka.<br /><br />Blog: http://kasunbg.blogspot.com<br />Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg
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                Re: I love Wicd

                Maybe you could get some help at:

                http://wicd.net/punbb/
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