[Gllug] Linux workstation admin simpler than OS X

Christopher Hunter cehunter at gb-x.org
Sun Aug 2 22:47:18 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 13:01 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:

> 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

I'm not suggesting that it was\ "official" advice!  See here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=900559

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22744133-cannot-get-wireless-going

http://fixunix.com/ubuntu/544170-wicd-gnome-network-manager.html

I found NM to be entirely useless on every laptop I tried it on, but it
they all worked fine with WICD.

Regards

Chris



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