CentOS - Jul 2015 - wicd problem 0: i have started having problems wicd and network connections

greetings,

system:
         CentOS = 6.6 - current updates
            KDE = 4.3.4
Network Manager = 0.8.1
           wicd = 1.7.0 (bzr-r552)

from what i have read in threads, it appears that 'wicd' is recommended
network controller over 'network manager'.

because of this, i installed wicd and tried to use.

i find this strange because i see problems when using 'wicd'.

in attempt to understand what and where problem may be, i have tried
various ways of checking for problem.

to post what i have found, i am posting in 6 parts to hopefully make
it easier for help in troubleshooting by breaking down what i have
found.

comments and suggestions most welcome.

tia.


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CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6

tc,hago.

g
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On 7/26/2015 9:18 PM, g wrote:
> from what i have read in threads, it appears that 'wicd' is
recommended
> network controller over 'network manager'.
recommended by whom ?    rhel and therefore centos use network 
manager.     wicd is used by arch and some other distributions... wicd 
is not available via the base centos repository, either.



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On 27 Jul 2015 05:23, "g" <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> comments and suggestions most welcome.
>
1) This mailing list is not a bug tracker.
2) CentOS don't ship wicd
3) Given the above your six individual posts about something not
distributed by CentOS I'd consider as spam.

On el6, unless doing WiFi in which case use NetworkManager, use the network
service and edit the network configuration scripts. On el7 use
NetworkManager.

If you have a problem with something else open bugs or check mailing lists
for where you obtained the package from.

Oh and keep in mind net-tools is deprecated so try your best to swap out
your ifconfig, route, arp, netstat, etc commands for their iproute2
equivalents (ip and ss in this case).