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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2014-11-14 22:58, Israel skrev:
> Hi Paul,
> It is not advised to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces
> It should look as you have shown.
> If you add things to that file, generally it will take about 60 seconds
> longer to boot as it "tries to configure the network"  You will get a
> message about this on the splash screen.  It is quite annoying :)
> 
> Of course if you are doing extremely complex networking you can do it
> that way.
> Generally though you should simply launch wicd (hit the networking icon
> in the tray) and configure it there.  If you cannot connect via the
> default eth0 wlan0 you can change it.
> 
> If you want ethernet you can check which one you are using via the terminal
> ifconfig |grep eth
> or for wireless
> ifconfig |grep wlanifconfig |grep eth
> 
> If it says
> eth1  change wicd to use eth1, etc..
> 
> Of course you can also install network manager.
> If you remove wicd this will work... they CANNOT run together very well.
> 
> after installing network manager you can open the
> Panel Settings (my program) and disable the network indicator and click OK.
> Then open it again and re-enable it.
> If I remember right I set it to prefer network-manager over wicd.
> Basically the program checks to see if you have wicd or network manager
> installed... and if you do it will add it to the autostart.
> 
> Actually... this might be good to put in the manual :)
> 

+1

Best regards
Nio