On Thursday 03 September 2020 12:26:01 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Thu, 3 Sep 10:27:43 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
On Thursday 03 September 2020 10:01:53 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Thu, 3 Sep 07:57:03 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
While I have Internet, of a sort, I still have a few glitches; for example, I cannot go offline, then go online again. Somehow, wicd either auto-connects to my wifi network; when instead, I want to enable wifi, then look at the available network choices, because my local network has several nodes or access points within the building where I live, and somehow it doesn't always choose the strongest or closest signal. I have an access point right outside my door, yet autoconnect seems to avoid it.
But when I try to disconnect, sometimes wicd seems to hang on, and show me still connected, yet I can't download emails or go online for other stuff. When I run macchanger, it keeps showing me that my mac address changes; and I run knetstats-trinity (which is a nice simple gui tool) and it shows my wireless is connected then disconnected, shows activity then no activity; yet in reality, I can't go online. So my only recourse at this point is to reboot.
When I tried to get tdenetworkmanager to run, I had those problems already discussed earlier. I managed to download the packages and dependencies to install network-manager-tde without systemd, so it all *seems* like it ought to work out right, but I always end up going back to wicd; which, again, is only sort of half-working at the moment, and I must keep rebooting.
How would I go about pruning away the wicd stuff that I don't want, and keeping only the tdenetworkmanager and required dependencies, etc.? I've search apt-get, but I believe that I already have all the dependencies and recommends. I can't think what else I might have missed.
Bill
Just my experience: eiter use wicd (and uninstall network-manager) or use networkmanager (and uninstall wicd).
Yeah, that's where I think I am headed. I already spent most of the past two years using wicd instead of tdenetworkmanager. I just keep hoping that I will get a different answer, so I ask the fortune teller to give me another reading, and then another ...
I would be okay with using wicd instead; no problem. But now when I go offline, wicd doesn't offer me "options" -- that is, it looks like it hangs on, like it's still online, and I cannot get back online without rebooting.
Maybe I should run wicd as root? I don't like to do that. Usually wicd doesn't behave in this manner, which I why I'm bothered.
the deamon part of wicd runs as root, your gui client communicates with that daemon. there's also a wicd-cli for pure hearted.
btw, what's in your /etc/netwok/interfaces? since beowulf/buster anything but "lo" will give trouble.
I am not in control of my network connection -- as proved by the fact that I can't go online/offline or offline/online without rebooting. This is what is driving me crazy.
If anybody is annoyed by my complaints, and failure to resolve my own issues, please be patient with me, and remember that I never had any problems with my network itself for the past few years. I would bounce between tdenetworkmanager and wicd, it's true, but my network connection was stable, and I felt in control. I had other problems, yes, but this is different.
Bill
I might give that wicd-cli a whirl, since I already have it, and its manpages are blessedly short, yet have all the options I want.
It is a matter of debate, whether or not I am pure of heart; nowadays, however, I have been washing my hands more often than usual. That ought to count for something, right?
Bill
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