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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WiFi on old Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:10:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2199850.ElGaqSPkdT@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rrqdp4$7a2$1@ciao.gmane.io>

On Monday, 21 December 2020 15:08:20 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-12-21, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is
> > wpa-supplicant a good idea?
> 
> I've never used anything else.
> 
> > That's what the handbook recommends, but I think I remember
> > something like wicd being better.
> 
> Better how?

Easier to use, more flexible, less constrained by config settings, ... Something 
like that, but it was a long time ago.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-21 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-21 13:21 [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad Peter Humphrey
2020-12-21 13:52 ` Michael
2020-12-21 15:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-21 18:10   ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2020-12-21 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-12-21 21:42 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)

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