Wifi with LXDE Debian
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:32 am
Hello,
I am a complete newbie of Lxde. I have installed it with debian on an old laptop. Everything was working very well, but after I tried using a wifi dongle I started having some problems. At the beginning wired network worked fine, but not the wifi, so I tried installing the gnome network manager hoping I would be able to put it on the panel and, although I didn't manage, wired network was still working (no wifi though). Then I installed lxnm and the monitor plugin (the ones in the repositories), but after that I could neither do wifi nor cable (even after manually executing the py scripts) and I could not find anything to put on the panel, for an easy, no script, management. So now I am stuck with a computer with no connection whatsoever
What should I do?
I have no problems with scripts, although I am not so literate to manage things all by myself (i.e. I need step by step instructions, otherwise I might get a bit lost), but I would like to have some network manager (both wifi and wireless) that would start automatically on startup and something with a gui to select the network and input the passwords (a la gnome network manager) because this computer will mainly be used by very inexperienced users.
Cheers
I am a complete newbie of Lxde. I have installed it with debian on an old laptop. Everything was working very well, but after I tried using a wifi dongle I started having some problems. At the beginning wired network worked fine, but not the wifi, so I tried installing the gnome network manager hoping I would be able to put it on the panel and, although I didn't manage, wired network was still working (no wifi though). Then I installed lxnm and the monitor plugin (the ones in the repositories), but after that I could neither do wifi nor cable (even after manually executing the py scripts) and I could not find anything to put on the panel, for an easy, no script, management. So now I am stuck with a computer with no connection whatsoever
What should I do?
I have no problems with scripts, although I am not so literate to manage things all by myself (i.e. I need step by step instructions, otherwise I might get a bit lost), but I would like to have some network manager (both wifi and wireless) that would start automatically on startup and something with a gui to select the network and input the passwords (a la gnome network manager) because this computer will mainly be used by very inexperienced users.
Cheers