Hello all
Can anyone clarify how network management works by default in Trinity? Coming from a Gnome background I was expecting an all-around Wired/Wireless manager akin to network-manager but have had no such luck.
I primarily use WiFi, and did try out KWiFiManager, but it appears to be quite buggy. Specifically, for my card it states that 'no networks [were] found' (but the same scan with iwlist returns a network list).
I would ideally like to use network-manager, and while I have heard whispers online about a package called network-manager-tde (it turns up in a few Google results); it does not appear to be available in the TDE repository.
I'm running Debian 7 (Wheezy).
On 10/15/2014 02:25 PM, James Anslow wrote:
I would ideally like to use network-manager, and while I have heard whispers online about a package called network-manager-tde (it turns up in a few Google results); it does not appear to be available in the TDE repository.
I could never get KWiFiManager to do much of anything so I don't mess with it anymore.
It sounds like you're running TDE 13.2. In that case, you have to install wicd, and make sure you uninstall network-manager, or it'll run in the background even though you have no applet to control it, and wicd won't be able to change networks. I don't like wicd as well as network-manager, but it works fine once I figured out network-manager was messing it up.
TDE 14 has the network-manager-tde applet to control network-manager. network-manager-gnome will also show up in the TDE panel, sometimes as a little dot and sometimes displayed correctly. To fix that, edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop . Change the line that says:
NotShowIn=KDE; to: NotShowIn=KDE;TDE;
Most of my machines are now on Slavek's R14 preliminary stable, and I really like having network-manager back.
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James Anslow