Linux for an association I work for.

[Noam Rathaus]

Micha,

Unrelated to David's notes, rather to yours wicd is also the solution on one 
of our DELL laptops that wasn't able to join WEP/WPA networks unless we used 
wicd - as the network manager failed every time.

On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:31:06 Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:58:33 +0200
>
> David Harel <hareldvd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> > I need your help regarding convincing the vice president of an
> > association to shift from MS XP to Linux. What I did till now was
> > install Ubuntu on two machines that were phasing out and failed to run
> > MS. We got all services we needed including connectivity to external
> > resources.
> >
> > Currently the objection to my initiation is in three items:
> >
> >    1. Make Linux connect to IPVPN (thought it is straight forward).
>
> The easiest way I found to connect to a VPN was using netmanager and all
> the respective vpn packages. I am currently running wicd though since
> network manager wasn't stable with my wireless (don't know if it's network
> manager or the driver since connection is finicky also with wicd)
>
> >    2. Maintenance cost.
> >    3. Getting his approval for my test (seems like a small man).
> >
> > I need information to try to overturn his stubbornness.
>
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