> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
