Comment 65 for bug 357395

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 07:15 +0000, Rajiv Prasad wrote:
> What I still don't understand is why U1 can't just use a properly
> working network connection without relying on wicd or NM. This design
> choice just defies logic.

It doesn't *require* wicd or NM. It does prefer NM, because we get
useful information via the DBus interface, which we can't easily get
otherwise. Ideally wicd, ConnectionManager, etc... would all implement
the same DBus interface to get this information, but they don't. The
branch I landed, and which is now in the beta PPA packages, is for a bug
that was requiring that NM be used, as the failure case wasn't being
handled properly in all cases. It will work fine now with wicd, or
ifconfig, or whatever you want to use, so long as the network is
available.

If you are having problem installing the packages, or are still having
issues connecting, it is almost certainly a different issue. Please file
a separate bug so we can track it there, rather than filling this report
with discussion of other issues. Thanks.