Re: network-manager in Jessie upgrade issues

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 28 June 2015 03:55:49 Sam Smith wrote:
> On 06/27/2015 04:54 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 June 2015 22:42:11 Sam Smith wrote:
> >> I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie today on my laptop. I cannot get wifi
> >> to work now. I have been using network-manager with KDE for years now. I
> >> tried removing everything network-manager related through apt and
> >> starting over but that didn't work. I have network-manager and
> >> plasma-widget-networkmanagement installed and can configure interfaces
> >> through the GUI. Wired works, but wireless never fully connects no
> >> matter if security (WPA2) is being used or not. See attached log.
> >>
> >> I tried using Wicd and it worked fine to connect to wifi so I don't
> >> think my hardware is at fault.
> >>
> >> I am currently trying to figure out how to get more verbose logging from
> >> either network-manager or the wpa supplicant, all docs I can find seem
> >> irrelevant so at least looking for tips on that.
> >
> > If wicd works why not use it?
> >
> > Lisi
>
> After many hours... I took your advice.
> And then realized that it doesn't have OpenVPN integration like
> network-manager... dang.

:-(  So that is why not use it. ;-)

Pity.  In general wicd is much nicer than Network Manager.

Lisi