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Re: [trinity-users] Issues on Squeeze

From: Kristopher Gamrat <pikidalto@...>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:20:12 -0400
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Ed Hurst <eddie@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:34:34 -0500, David Hare <davidahare@...> wrote:
>
>> From normal Squeeze repos, wpagui works better here than knetworkmanager
>> ever did. It is qt4 but will not also install half of kde4 as deps. I use
>> "apt-get install no-install-recommends wpagui"
>
> Interesting. I got it installed but it wouldn't find my wifi interface. The
> manual setup I already understood from past experience using a laptop
> without X (back in the days of Etch). Of course, it matters not what I can
> do for myself, but this machine is a demo model for Linux newbies migrating
> from Windows. I'm not willing to put them through manual wifi config that
> way. I suppose I should have mentioned that in my initial whine ;-)

Oh yes, we need to pull in the newbies. TDE isn't a fully polished
product yet, though, but we are working out some major issues via our
development version. Unfortunately that may be awhile and KDE3/TDE are
IMO the best ones for newbies. You may be able to get away with a
distro that uses KDE 3.5.10 until we can make a new release.

-- 
Kris
"Piki"
Ark Linux Webmaster
Trinity Desktop Environment Packager