{"id":14,"date":"2007-08-04T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-08-04T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T09:06:56","slug":"wireless-interface-connection-daemon-wicd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Interface Connection Daemon (WICD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wicd (pronounced &#8220;Wicked&#8221;) is an alternative to the network-manager applet. Although its integration with Gnome is not as nice it seems to work better with WIFI encrypted networks. If you&#8217;re having problems with network-manager and you can&#8217;t connect to your network you should definitely give Wicd a try.<\/p>\n<p>To install it, remove network manager:<\/p>\n<p>sudo apt-get remove network-manager<\/p>\n<p>Then download and install (by double clicking on it) this deb package: <a href=\"http:\/\/wicd.longren.org\/pool\/feisty\/extras\/wicd_1.3.1-all.deb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wicd.longren.org\/pool\/feisty\/extras\/wicd_1.3.1-all.deb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then open the Control Center from mintMenu and search for &#8220;sessions&#8221;. In there add a &#8220;Wicd&#8221; entry and type &#8220;\/opt\/wicd\/tray.py&#8221;. (You can also remove network-manager from there).<\/p>\n<p>Then reboot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Upon restart you should see this little icon in your panel:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/upload\/2007\/08\/wicd-panel1.png\" alt=\"wicd-panel1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on it to access Wicd:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/upload\/2007\/08\/wicd-manager.png\" alt=\"wicd-manager.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/upload\/2007\/08\/wicd-preferences.png\" alt=\"wicd-preferences.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too early to tell whether Wicd will replace Network-Manager in future releases of Linux Mint. Both projects have improvements to make, whether it&#8217;s to do with networking or Gnome integration. The presence of two competing projects in that area is a very good thing though and we should expect wireless connectivity to improve greatly in the months to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicd (pronounced &#8220;Wicked&#8221;) is an alternative to the network-manager applet. Although its integration with Gnome is not as nice it seems to work better with WIFI encrypted networks. If you&#8217;re having problems with network-manager and you can&#8217;t connect to your network you should definitely give Wicd a try. To install it, remove network manager: sudo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}