Re: wi-fi security?
Hi Paul,
Sorry, made an error. You should use or course:
> # aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd
Greetings, Manon.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Metten<manon.metten@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
>
> You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if
> you're too using Lenny)
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
> run 'aptitude update', ignore the error msg, install the
> backports-keyring an update again:
>
> # aptitude update
> # aptitude install debian-backports-keyring
> # aptitude update
>
> Then you can install wicd as follows:
> # aptitude install -t etch-backports wicd
>
> However, when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove
> 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless,
> I cancelled the installation.
>
> Greetings, Manon.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul E Condon<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
>> On 2009-08-05_15:28:21, Preston Boyington wrote:
>>> Paul E Condon wrote:
>>>
>>> <snipped>
>>>
>>> > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is
>>> > installed on my Acer Aspire one...
>>>
>>> Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second
>>> thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the
>>> update-manager because I prefer to use Aptitude).
>>>
>>> wicd has been flawless for me since i started using it.
>>>
>>
>> I find myself with a very puzzling problem. I want to look at wicd,
>> but I can't. When I tried to install it with aptitude, I could not
>> find it using / search. More puzzling still - I am using approx, the
>> apt proxy, running on a lenny machine that is separate from my desktop
>> and my Acer. I know the proxy is working because I have been using it
>> for at least two months to configure two other specialized servers and
>> my desktop. I used it in the re-install of lenny today, and it worked
>> for that. I still cannot find wicd in aptitude on the Acer, even after
>> this totally new install. **But** I can find it in aptitude on my
>> desktop host. The only differences that I can think of are things that
>> surely should not affect the visibility of a package in aptitude,
>> namely:
>>
>> 1) I selected laptop in tasksel for tha Acer, but not for any of the
>> other hosts.
>>
>> 2) I use /etc/hosts on the other machines, but DHCP on the Acer (DHCP
>> is being served by my D-Link router. It has been doing it successfully
>> for a longggg time for the iMacs on the LAN and it allows the Acer to
>> access the web)
>>
>> What could I be doing wrong? Any ideas, anyone? I'm really pretty
>> sure that neither of these differences is the cause of the problem.
>> I must be doing something really dumb, but I can't see what it is.
>>
>> --
>> Paul E Condon
>> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>>
>>
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