From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OmMuN-00056W-I9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:25:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71EC9E09A6; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D33DE09A6 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97CCC507730 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:24:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:24:02 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless Message-ID: <20100820092402.11ab50b6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C6B11F3.4030509@gmail.com> References: <4C69E9A3.6020801@gmail.com> <4C6B11F3.4030509@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs28 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/6iQsCaG3wgOqz0KcKUQHTjV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7268f81a-6e86-4d1c-b685-aeb0f9d1950a X-Archives-Hash: ab0d597f3178e995df9a2f16f462c208 --Sig_/6iQsCaG3wgOqz0KcKUQHTjV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:23 +0000, CJoeB wrote: > More than anything, I am acknowledging this response. My understanding > is that Wicd requires wpa-supplicant. I don't know that I'm ready to > try to tackle the setup of wpa-supplicant - it's supposed to be harder > (it looks harder from what I have read) to configure than wireless-tools Wicd require wpa_supplicant because that's what it uses, not you. Wicd does all the hard work, you just give it the password etc. and let it get on with things. --=20 Neil Bothwick "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." (Albert Einstein) --Sig_/6iQsCaG3wgOqz0KcKUQHTjV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxuO6MACgkQum4al0N1GQO9MQCghnAhO7g0dFW5HV4KJ2p5XgZv bDgAn3rrBme7uCVbdNI4gPxU9rIM/Dd3 =5HRc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6iQsCaG3wgOqz0KcKUQHTjV--