Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

[Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>]

On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Indeed, wicd-curses does the job.

Thanks,

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Valmor