[Gllug] Linux workstation admin simpler than OS X

Caroline Ford caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 2 12:01:28 UTC 2009


On 2 Aug 2009, at 11:54, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 22:57 +0100, Alan Marsh wrote:
>
>> NetworkManager isn't specific to Red Hat, so far as I know, so why  
>> isn't Ubuntu affected by all this?
>
> It is - see my earlier post.  The version supplied with Ubuntu can't
> properly handle WPA or WPA2 on most wireless network cards.  There was
> an update to NM, but it still didn't work.  I replaced it with WICD,  
> and
> there's been no further problem.

Err.. My Ubuntu copes with WPA2 just fine. ath5x driver.

Where did you read that newbies should use WICD? It can't have been  
anywhere official- the forums?

Caroline
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