From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110220175345.63aed97b@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D601E81.1000301@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it
> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and
> wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no
> wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config
> utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down.
> There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to
> get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this.
The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not
what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for
you when X is unavailable.
If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need
that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot.
--
Neil Bothwick
I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-20 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-19 17:44 [gentoo-user] help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-19 18:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-19 18:24 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-19 18:43 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-19 18:45 ` Dale
2011-02-19 19:38 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-19 18:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-02-19 18:32 ` Dale
2011-02-19 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-19 19:32 ` Dale
2011-02-19 19:48 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-20 17:53 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-02-21 3:43 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-19 20:14 ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-19 20:35 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-19 20:41 ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-19 20:53 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-19 20:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-02-19 23:59 ` Mick
2011-02-20 0:25 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-20 15:03 ` Mick
2011-02-21 4:07 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-02-21 8:10 ` Mick
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