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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
