Re: newbie questions- laptop wireless for Wheezy with Gnome
Thank you for replying.
It turns out that I did have the applet, but still could not connect. I
finally figured out that the problem was due to my misunderstanding the
difference between "managed" and "not managed"... I had inadvertently left
some configuration info in my /etc/network/interfaces file that was
interfering with the network-manager. After I removed the lines from the
interfaces file everything now works as expected.
Thank you again, you have been very helpful to me, and others on the
debian-users list, more than once.
I would also like to know how I can configure a console laptop (one with
no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
necessary. Can someone point me to a tutorial that would help me?
Keith Ostertag
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:37 -0700, keitho wrote:
>
>> I hate to say this, but I am confused about how to configure wireless on
>> my Wheezy laptop system.
>
> (...)
>
>> But I can't seem to figure out which software packages I need to do
>> this. I am downloading the deb packages on a different computer then
>> transfering them via USB flashdrive to my laptop, then using dpkg -i to
>> install them. Of course I have had to get all the package dependencies,
>> which takes time. So far I have installed wireless-tools,
>> network-manager, wpasupplicant, network-manager-gnome, and a bunch of
>> lib dependiencies. But I don't have an network-manager-applet. When I
>> look online for an applet I only find the source, not a binary deb
>> package.
>
> (...)
>
> That's strange.
>
> If you installed wheezy and selected "desktop" and "laptop tools"
> templates, network manager (as well as the required files, like the
> applet) should have been installed automatically by default :-?
>
> BTW, the package which contains the applet is "network-manager-gnome"
> which you seem to have installed so you should be able to launch it by
> running "nm-applet --sm-disable".
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>
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