Anno domini 2020 Thu, 3 Sep 07:57:03 -0700 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit: > > 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. > > 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 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. > > Bill Just my experience: eiter use wicd (and uninstall network-manager) or use networkmanager (and uninstall wicd). > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > 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 > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...