Re: What pgm reads the /etc/network/interfaces file? (Installation WPA worked great! Too bad I messed with it!)

> From: Derek Broughton <derek@...>
> Subject: Re: What pgm reads the /etc/network/interfaces file? (Installation WPA worked great! Too bad I messed with it!)
> To: ubuntu-users@...
> Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 3:17 PM
> NoOp wrote:
>
> > There are issues with NM:
> > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/339046>
> > [Wireless WPA key corrupted]
> > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/291260>
> > [seahorse does not show original wpa passphrase]
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557382
> > [WPA password changes into hash, not properly stored]
> >
> > Were I you, I'd look into installing wicd...
>
> Oh God, I hear that music playing again.  Sure there
> are issues with
> NetworkManager - but there are issues with Wicd too, and
> it's not as well
> supported by Ubuntu.  I see 14 bugs filed against
> wicd, all but 1 one of
> them still "New" - they're not getting much action. 
> Network-manager has far
> more open bugs (565) but 60% of them are getting _some_
> attention.
>
> Sure, go ahead install wicd but don't expect to be able to
> get much help if
> it doesn't work.
> --
> derek
>
>