Re: wi-fi security?
Hi Paul,
I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if
you're too using Lenny)
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
run 'aptitude update', ignore the error msg, install the
backports-keyring an update again:
# aptitude update
# aptitude install debian-backports-keyring
# aptitude update
Then you can install wicd as follows:
# aptitude install -t etch-backports wicd
However, when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove
'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless,
I cancelled the installation.
Greetings, Manon.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul E Condon<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> On 2009-08-05_15:28:21, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> Paul E Condon wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>> > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is
>> > installed on my Acer Aspire one...
>>
>> Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second
>> thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the
>> update-manager because I prefer to use Aptitude).
>>
>> wicd has been flawless for me since i started using it.
>>
>
> I find myself with a very puzzling problem. I want to look at wicd,
> but I can't. When I tried to install it with aptitude, I could not
> find it using / search. More puzzling still - I am using approx, the
> apt proxy, running on a lenny machine that is separate from my desktop
> and my Acer. I know the proxy is working because I have been using it
> for at least two months to configure two other specialized servers and
> my desktop. I used it in the re-install of lenny today, and it worked
> for that. I still cannot find wicd in aptitude on the Acer, even after
> this totally new install. **But** I can find it in aptitude on my
> desktop host. The only differences that I can think of are things that
> surely should not affect the visibility of a package in aptitude,
> namely:
>
> 1) I selected laptop in tasksel for tha Acer, but not for any of the
> other hosts.
>
> 2) I use /etc/hosts on the other machines, but DHCP on the Acer (DHCP
> is being served by my D-Link router. It has been doing it successfully
> for a longggg time for the iMacs on the LAN and it allows the Acer to
> access the web)
>
> What could I be doing wrong? Any ideas, anyone? I'm really pretty
> sure that neither of these differences is the cause of the problem.
> I must be doing something really dumb, but I can't see what it is.
>
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> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>
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