Re: wireless gui configuration utility

[Preston Boyington <preston.lists@gmail.com>]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> 
> My two problems with wicd (one of them is not an issue at the moment, but it
> was)
> 
> 1. the memory overhead of the client (why python? it's very good for daemons
> and such, not very memory efficient)
> root      4634  0.2  0.3  89776  7776 ?        S    00:51   3:23 python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-daemon.py
> root      4975  0.1  0.2  71264  5848 ?        S    00:51   1:17 python /usr/share/wicd/monitor.py
> micha     5440  0.0  1.1 197904 23068 ?        Ss   00:57   0:37 python /usr/share/wicd/wicd-client.py
> 
> 2. It doesn't support vpn which network manager does
> 
> on the other hand I couldn't find how to manually set an ip with network
> manager and the wireless connection was very unstable (very frequent
> disconnects requiring wireless system restarts to find the wireless network
> again).
> 
> So for the moment it's wicd for me (I have the memory to spare at the moment).
> 
> 

I typically use wifi-radar for my wireless but tried wicd this weekend
and it worked with no problems.

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