On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:13:36 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.reisz@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 22 July 2013 23:37:35 Alexandre Couture wrote:
On 07/22/2013 02:25 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I use squeese. nm-applet is from the network-manager-applet package,
The problem is making it work on Wheezy. I suppose I could go back to Squeeze, but it seems better to put new installs on XFCE for now, if it comes to that. XFCE has a really good network applet, and most users don't really notice the difference as long as everything they need works.
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I'd have to say that every time I had to/wanted to use Debian systems, I had this kind of problems. If it is not super important for you to use a Debian-based distro, I would really recommend you to try PCLinuxOS or Mageia.
A Mageia user of my acquaintance is currently complaining that wireless connections are dodgy. He is thinking of using something else for a bit in the hope that the probem will be ironed out.
They comes with tons of easy to use administration and networking tools. And they works with any desktop environment you want to use, even small window managers. No need to know by heart console lines to write to do ... things.
Lisi
Wireless in any *nix is going to be iffy and not very good, simply because there's not enough folk in the linux world working on wireless *and* the wireless hardware manufacturers aren't helping one iota, so the few linux dev's working on wireless are forced to do everything by baby steps. It's a shame, but that's just the way it is at present.