Re: Thoughts on roaming laptop setup for Debian Edu
I also would argue that wicd is fairly less efficient
than network manager. I've tested it
recently on an fresh Wheezy-XFCE but at school I wasn't able to
connect and had to replace it with n-m.
Cheers
Giorgio
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:18:12PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen 2010-07-10]
> > * The wicd package is installed (instead of network-manager). Not
> > sure if this is a good idea or not, but the report from Extremadura
> > made me put it in there as a test.
>
> Based on todays tests, I am starting to suspect it might be better to
> use network-manager.
>
> I installed a roaming workstation using PXE in a Debian Edu/Squeeze
> network today, and the installation worked fairly well (partition size
> issues - updated d-e-install with new sizes). After installation, I can
> log in with the first user, and a local home directory is created and
> used after I log in for the second time. I can disconnect the network
> cable and still log in using cached credentials. All good so far.
>
> But, when I try to connect to the wireless networks around me, wicd do
> not see anything. I had to manually configure wicd to use wlan0 as the
> wireless interface to be able to see the wireless networks. And when I
> try to select the non-encrypted network I want to use, I am unable to
> get any IP address.
>
> After removing the wicd package and installing the network-manager-kde
> instead to get a KDE panel widget to control network-manager, I am able
> to connect to the wireless network.
>
> Anyone want to debug wicd in this setup, or should we just switch to
> network-manager on Roaming Workstation profiles? Possible advantages:
>
> - It will discover wireless interfaces without any configuration.
>
> - Roaming Workstation will use network manager the same way Standalone
> (and all other profiles?) do it now.
>
> Possible problems
>
> - Roaming Workstation will not work for new users because the network
> is not enabled at boot but only after first login, and thus no
> connection to LDAP and Kerberos can be made.
>
> The problems I see might be because wicd and network-manager are
> confusing each other. I did not have much time to debug.
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>
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