Re: Debian 5.0.2 network manager not working?
I'm still confused as to why certain menu items disappeared when going
from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 via a fresh installation. I should mention that I
chose to use the debian ftp repository during installation so the
newest packages and updates were installed. Certain menus were
significantly truncated while others were untouched (Games, Office for
example); the System->Administration menu shrunk to about half of the
size it was with 5.0.1 (meaning about half of the items in the
drop-down menu were missing such as "Software Sources", etc.).
Any insight as to why some packages were not installed by default?
I'm aware that wicd can be used for networking, but am stumped why no
default networking manager (generic name, not specific to nm-applet)
was installed. After a fresh installation there was no way to connect
to a wireless network until installing additional packages, which
seems odd since I installed the "laptop" plus "desktop environment"
during installation. Even then nm-applet didn't appear to work well
with 5.0.2 compared to 5.0.1. I know there was a keyring issue upon
login with nm-applet and 5.0.1 when using WPA so was it removed from
5.0.2 because of that?
I'm still learning Debian so if I'm missing something, please let me
know as I'm here to learn.
Thanks!
Mark
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 28 June 2009 19:18:54 Mark Marcacci wrote:
> > I've been installing Debian 5.0.1 via a downloaded jigdo DVD image from the
> > official site. This morning did a fresh laptop install and noticed it used
> > 795 files total versus 809 last week when I did a few trial installations
> > on the same machine with the same hardware. One of the packages missing
> > after booting into Gnome was Network Manager - previously was included in
> > the base installation but this time I had to manually install the package.
> > I also noticed several fewer items in the System->Administration menu,
> > notably things like Software Sources was gone.
> >
> > Anyone else notice this or did my installation just hiccup? I've checked
> > the debian.org page and didn't see any notes about these changes. I'm
> > currently DBAN'ing the hard drive preparing for another fresh installation
> > but wanted to check first in case it's not specific to my machine.
>
> I have had a similar experience with a recent installation of 5.0.1 with KDE.
> CUPS and K3b were missing. Other applications may well also be missing, but
> have not so far been missed.
>
> Lisi
>
>
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