On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 19:08 -0600, pauriem gmail com wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and when > I try to use the wicd or indicator-network packages on my system, I > get errors related to network manager > > wicd cannot authenticate properly to my wireless network in the > presence of network manager (gives up reporting bad password) but if I > uninstall network manager, wicd connects okay with exact same > settings, I am wondering why? WICD and Network Manager do the same thing. If both of them are trying to do the same thing at the same time, they interfere with each other. > > also, I would like to use network manager with the indicator-network > plug-in for the system tray rather than via nm-applet, yet > indicator-network automatically replaces network manager with another > package called connman that is crash-prone, so is there no way to use > network manager with indicator-network? Same answer. Indicator-Network is a GUI for Connman, which does the same thing as Network Manager and WICD. And you can't run more than one network management daemon at the same time. Simon.
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