Micha, Unrelated to David's notes, rather to yours wicd is also the solution on one of our DELL laptops that wasn't able to join WEP/WPA networks unless we used wicd - as the network manager failed every time.
On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:31:06 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200 > > David Harel <harel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > > > I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an > > association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was > > install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run > > MS. We got all services we needed including connectivity to external > > resources. > > > > Currently the objection to my initiation is in three items: > > > > 1. Make Linux connect to IPVPN (thought it is straight forward). > > The easiest way I found to connect to a VPN was using netmanager and all > the respective vpn packages. I am currently running wicd though since > network manager wasn't stable with my wireless (don't know if it's network > manager or the driver since connection is finicky also with wicd) > > > 2. Maintenance cost. > > 3. Getting his approval for my test (seems like a small man). > > > > I need information to try to overturn his stubbornness. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Noam Rathaus CTO no...@beyondsecurity.com http://www.beyondsecurity.com "Know that you are safe." _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
