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11.10 not recognising WICD has made a network connection

Asked by alex

I use WICD to make network connections because NM has not worked on my Advent 4211.

Since upgrade to 11.10 I can make wifi connections with WICD but evolution and software centre are convinced i am offline even though i have an active connection (e.g. webpages are downloadable etc.).

1 how can i fix this

2. How do I add Network manager to startup to give that a try. I can not find network manager from the dash even though it is installed. I do not know what the terminal command for network manager is, which is why i can not add it to the start up.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

sudo apt-get update

First, does it work ok?

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alex (aarw2) said : 		#2

I have run apt-get updated and re-started. That has not helped.

I am willing to try network manager, if you can give me advice on how to run it and add it to the startup menu. Why does it not appear in bash search?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you install it and uninstall wicd and reboot it will startup

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alex (aarw2) said : 		#4

Dear Andrew
thank you for your help. I unstalled WICD and rebooted. This did not result in nm automatically starting up. Network manager does not show up in bash. But luckily I tried ALT-F2 and tried some random commands until I found nm-applet. I ran this and added it to the start up. And to my amazement network manager works! In 3 years of Ubuntu I have never seen network manager working.

Any way nm-applet this fixes the problem. Evolution and software centre see the network. I filled a bug as they should see the network with WICD.