bobafred

We’ve gone wireless in the new house, which meant a wireless card for my desktop. I ended up with a TRENDnet TEW-443PI from Newegg after reading many positive reviews. The important thing was that some stated it worked well with Linux.

Some reviewers also recommended dumping NetworkManager in favor of wicd to manage the wireless connection. I did and it rocks.

According to the website:

The official releases are for Ubuntu, but it has been known to work in Debian. It may also work in other distros. wicd will work on any version of Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 and above.

So, if you’re having problems getting your Ubuntu to connect wirelessly, give this a look. Of course, I only used NetworkManager long enough to download wicd, so I never really had any problems with it.

Ok, the real reason I wanted to post this was because of the title.