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 1PrMeC-00021G-N7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:41:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC3E81C004; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C6C1C004 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so3495253ywa.40 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:39:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3jxsNOaGVA3K2Q72lid7o7I4P5+eqxwnRi6ll2NWkxQ=; b=VXRBXdzHu57Yh/VpyhvpocDLUMmIy0S/oCyfxtTJuElPVkB5jkaSo4WhwVsP8G3/nD N9D6BHtzwMTbqBqe5YEbHX5ZSWI70T5JNE+pBtO8VMfSPYmJExVOh5YqRa2c0umQX/3a NEOpv1ixJ6iiz9HJ5zqP1NmyjMgTkYDxQSlbE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aCK68vlRomtjww/d/uetMdDkjmjLqCb4GD7+RtRJQMcEYc3kxH+8ho33aZOAhMm47T xjpDA29MsxyEJribNmS9gHzGSIMGtfg5cq4KtfEP0baNxTmjxbKB+oLs2DQEdxTsBM7T t+qSn4SaEjCuALgJc/Iih9Gz+leYpQWfb50OE= Received: by 10.150.158.12 with SMTP id g12mr1095030ybe.48.1298259577891; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.10.7] (c-68-32-248-84.hsd1.tn.comcast.net [68.32.248.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q4sm2010645yba.2.2011.02.20.19.39.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:39:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D61DF60.6030100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:43:28 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110218 Lightning/1.0b3pre Lanikai/3.1.7 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 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 References: <4D600CBF.8030300@gmail.com> <4D601E81.1000301@gmail.com> <20110220175345.63aed97b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110220175345.63aed97b@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cbe2ea462a49c97a5fd231ca9e84a1f7 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, -- Valmor