Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
> <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> >    I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would
> > like to avoid using it.
> 
> Debateable, but hey - it's your computer.


I was actually surprised to find it enabled by default in some recent 
Lenny installations.

> 
> >    So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of
> > networking (especially wireless), listing networks in reach and allowing
> > automatic connection to them?
> 
> Try http://wicd.sourceforge.net

Anybody bothered packaging it for Debian?

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