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.
Reply: if you are using some kind of communal wifi. Don't allow auto connect. Bad human. Instead always choose it manually. Go go prefs and untick any auto connect options. Be safe.
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 that happens. Restart wicd and wicd-tray. However, before that, do this. "service network restart" from a root terminal. See if that helps.
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.
You don't need to remove wicd for the moment, just disable it. /etc/xdg/autostart is likely where you will find it. or use whatever startup control tool you have to do the same.
tdenetworkmanager never seemed to work for me unless I ran it as root. Same with net-applet.
Kate
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