Re: [orca-list] getting to wireless networks

["Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>]

How did you remove network manager?

A friend clames when you install wicd it'll remove manager automatically.

Chris.----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vojtech Polásek" <krecoun gmail com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] getting to wireless networks


> Hello,
> the icon should be somewhere on the gnome panel. You can cycle between 
> panels and  desktop using ctrl-alt-tab.
> But I personally don't like gnome network manager and removed it. I 
> installed wicd. You have to install wicd -  it is a deamon and then 
> wicd-gtk, that's the gtk interface. It is much better network manager in 
> my opinion.
> You have similar options like in windows and can set multiple profiles for 
> ethernet connections, etc.
> Vojta
>
> On 21.8.2010 06:14, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In Ubuntu, when I plug in my wireless card, a message pops up to tell me
> > that wireless networks are in range.
> > No doubt one of them is mine, and I want to access the wireless networks, 
> > so
> > I can enter the key to my router, but I don't know how to get to this 
> > list
> > of networks.
> > I have made some wireless network connections in "network tools", but 
> > they
> > never connect, and that is why I want to connect to one of them in the 
> > list.
> > It is like a balloon that comes up and tells me that there are wireless
> > networks, so I suspect that there is a panel of these sort of things to 
> > get
> > to.
> > Thanks for suggestions.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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