wicd - better wireless network manager than NetworkManager?

[yonas Abraham]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I listened to Linux Reality podcast and I heard there about wicd
>  [1]. They have mentioned it a few times and always in context that it
>  is a much better wireless network manager that gnome NetworkManager. I
>  can't test it because there is no wich in fedora repositories so I'm
>  interested if someone has already tested this app and what do you
>  think about it?
>
>  Cheers,
>  Valent.
>
>  [1] http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

I have been using wicd starting from F7. It feels much stable that NM.
I used to constantly get disconnected when I was using NM. It is easy
to make an rpm package for it.

in F8, NM refused to get connected to my WEP encrypted wireless.

/yonas