Package: wicd Version: 1.5.9-5 Severity: normal Tired of NetworkManager's inability to handle multi-user OSes, I tried wicd and am generally satisfied. But the UI for WPA connections is just confusing. Here's a sample scenario to see what I mean: - click on the applet to open "Wicd Manager". - see the network I want to use (it says it's using WPA). - I click "connect" and rather than prompting for a password, it complains that this networks requires encryption to be enabled. - I think to myself "how on earth can they distribute a default config that doesn't enable encruption". - I look through the manpages to figure out where I can enable encryption. - I get tired of it after a while, switch over to Google, with just as little luck. - Again, I get tired of it, and go back to the "Wicd Manager" to see what else I can do there. - I finally notice the little triangle next to my network's name. - I click on it, hopeful. - Disappointment: it only lets me say whether to connect automatically, whether I want to run scripts, and finally access to advanced settings. - I think to myself "enabling encryption for a WPA network would clearly never be considered 'advanced', and especially not more advanced than running scripts". - Yet, curiosity finally overpowers me and I go look inside "advanced settings" where I finally see how to "enablke encryption" (i.e. set the password).
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wicd depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii dhcp3-client 3.1.1-6 DHCP client ii ethtool 6+20090307-1 display or change Ethernet device ii iproute 20090324-1 networking and traffic control too ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-dbus 0.83.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii python-glade2 2.14.1-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii python-support 1.0.3 automated rebuilding support for P ii wireless-tools 29-1.1 Tools for manipulating Linux Wirel ii wpasupplicant 0.6.9-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I wicd recommends no packages. Versions of packages wicd suggests: ii pm-utils 1.2.5-2 utilities and scripts for power ma -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
