3 Sep
2020
3 Sep
'20
3:10 p.m.
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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