Re: wireless gui configuration utility
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:56:03 +0000
"thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Alejandro wrote :
> >
> >
> > >2009/1/15 Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki@gmail.com <mailto:umarzuki@gmail.com>>
> >>
> >> Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on
> >> lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my wireless
> >< experience better.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Umarzuki Mochlis
> >> http://gameornot.net
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > Wicd is great! give it a try.
> >
> > http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Cheers!
>
> +1 for wicd, with atheros chips (and ath5k driver) and wpa it has
> performed very well. During the past release of *buntu 8.10
> *NetworkManager has gone crazy on many wireless chips, especially
> atheros, and since then wicd has gained a good reputation there too.
>
I also see that. With atheros chip both ath5k and madwifi I see a lot of
disconnects with network manager. wicd is mostly stable although it does lock
up on me every once in a while requiring killing and restarting.
It also allows manually configuring the network address which I haven't found
how to do with network manager and is much more configurable.
On the other hand it's easy to setup a vpn with network manager, didn't see a
way to do it with wicd.
> It's in Sid/Unstable.
>
> Tom
>
>
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