Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3 at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can replace the Gnome-related-software to software which is desktop independent.
I'm a bit confused as to how to replace NetworkManager with wicd (using both wired and wireless connections). After installing wicd, I thought perhaps I could simply turn off NetworkManager, configure wicd, then when I am satisfied everything works with wicd properly I will uninstall NetworkManager. I am hoping that this approach won't leave me stranded with an incomplete or non-working interface configurations. I thought I could simply invoke $sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop to unload the Networkmanager daemon while playing around with configuring wicd, but that doesn't work. I get: $NetworkManager is already running (pid 3879) So then I try to kill the process, but it automatically restarts in about 20-30 seconds. So then I think maybe I should stop the networking daemon. But then, when I restart it how do I tell the system to use wicd instead of NetworkManager? So I guess there's a bunch of stuff I still don't understand (duh!). Is there a tutorial someone can point me to that would help educate me on how best to approach this task? Or do I need to go cold-turkey and uninstall NetworkManager before configuring wicd? So far I am looking at: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php and http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html Thanks, Keith Ostertag -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/b682d188b6f11a39dc325e49960c6962.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
