[Gllug] Linux workstation admin simpler than OS X

[John Winters]

Christopher Hunter 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.

I found NM couldn't handle the rather convoluted wifi authentication
which we have at school (a purely MacOS site).  It claimed it could, but
just sat there whirling its balls.

I replaced it with WICD and it works fine.  Not only that, I was able to
assist the network admins in diagnosing a rogue access point because
WICD gave a lot more detail and control in testing several different
access points on the same network.

John
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