On 02/20/2011 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:48:17 -0500, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Thanks for the help. This was less painful than I thought. However it >> exposed a internet connection problem. I am using wicd for wireless and >> wired internet config. This laptop happened to be in a place where no >> wired internet is available. Since I use the wicd-client X config >> utility I was not able to connect to the internet while X was down. >> There is a wicd-cli but the man page is empty. I guess I will have to >> get some info on how to use wicd-cli on an emergency like this. > > The man page is empty but wicd-cli --help will shoe that that this is not > what you want. You need wicd-curses, but wicd-client should call that for > you when X is unavailable. > > If you have auto-connect enabled for your ESSID, you don't even need > that, wicd will connect as soon as it starts at boot. > > Indeed, wicd-curses does the job.
Thanks, -- Valmor
