greetings,
system: CentOS = 6.6 - current updates KDE = 4.3.4 Network Manager = 0.8.1 wicd = 1.7.0 (bzr-r552)
from what i have read in threads, it appears that 'wicd' is recommended network controller over 'network manager'.
because of this, i installed wicd and tried to use.
i find this strange because i see problems when using 'wicd'.
in attempt to understand what and where problem may be, i have tried various ways of checking for problem.
to post what i have found, i am posting in 6 parts to hopefully make it easier for help in troubleshooting by breaking down what i have found.
comments and suggestions most welcome.
tia.
On 7/26/2015 9:18 PM, g wrote:
from what i have read in threads, it appears that 'wicd' is recommended network controller over 'network manager'.
recommended by whom ? rhel and therefore centos use network manager. wicd is used by arch and some other distributions... wicd is not available via the base centos repository, either.
On 27 Jul 2015 05:23, "g" geleem@bellsouth.net wrote:
comments and suggestions most welcome.
1) This mailing list is not a bug tracker. 2) CentOS don't ship wicd 3) Given the above your six individual posts about something not distributed by CentOS I'd consider as spam.
On el6, unless doing WiFi in which case use NetworkManager, use the network service and edit the network configuration scripts. On el7 use NetworkManager.
If you have a problem with something else open bugs or check mailing lists for where you obtained the package from.
Oh and keep in mind net-tools is deprecated so try your best to swap out your ifconfig, route, arp, netstat, etc commands for their iproute2 equivalents (ip and ss in this case).
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g -
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John R Pierce