On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 20:41 +0000, David Hare wrote:
> Network setup should not depend what desktop ,if any, is running
> 
> Is firmware-ipw2x00 installed ?
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200
> 
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Could it be a symptom of the kdesudo / kdesu problems? It sounds like
his LXDE desktop gave him the rights to make the needed entries but
Trinity did not.  Once the entries were made in LXDE, the Trinity tools
worked fine - I suspect they did not need root privileges at that point.
Just a guess - John