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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WiFi on old Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:10:08 +0000
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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.