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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091117183825.4f7ed7c1@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ac129340911170906k532260bdt97f64f195a3814e3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900, daid kahl wrote:

> I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet
> has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either
> open or that I had the passwords for.  The disadvantage of NM compared
> to wicd is it won't work without X.  The advantage is it will take
> care of the conf.d/net

Wicd doesn't need anything in conf.d/net.


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Neil Bothwick

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-14 18:27 [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools Nelis Botha
2009-11-16 15:48 ` Fernando Antunes
2009-11-17 17:06 ` daid kahl
2009-11-17 18:27   ` Dominic Kexel
2009-11-17 18:38   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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