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
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