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This thread is using wicd and wicked interchangeably.
They are totally different packages. Wicked is brand new and not even in the 13.1 release I don't think. Wicked is in obs and is expected to be a major new feature in 13.2.
It will be the default network manager for the next SLES (fall 2014) and was developed internally by suse.
Greg
Larry Finger
On 01/23/2014 10:24 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 01/23/2014 08:51 PM, Felix Miata pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Yesterday I installed fresh. Result was too much screwed up to make sense of it all. I tried zypper rm wicked, but couldn't get network to work except by using yast to delete NIC and add it back at every boot. Network@eth0.service refused to survive boot, if it ever got created at all. I couldn't find any wicked instructions anywhere on opensuse.org. Its man page is too terse for me to get a useful enough amount out of it. So I decided to install all over again, starting by tabooing wicked.
Tabooing wicked deselects zypper, and breaks too much to remember it all, a vast amount of yast, making software selection during installation take horrendous extra time clicking all those break xxx instead of allow wicked to be installed dialogs. e.g. inexplicable ones like yast2-users.
Ifup has always worked nicely with single NIC systems on a 100% wired LAN, no network "management" required. Why does unneeded network "management" need to be entangled in everything as wicked appears to be?
Because the devs will never learn the lesson that they need to get something new /working/ BEFORE making it the default. Does KDE4 and systemd ring any bells? :-)
I won't go so far as to say that the devs will never learn; however, wicd (aka wicked) is extremely wicked. I installed a copy to test something for a user, and I also was unable to return to NetworkManager when through. The only thing was to reinstall.
Larry
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