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I have a wired connection to the internet for my laptop. However, we just got a new printer, and it's the only thing connected to a commodity access point/router. If I use WiCD to connect to the router, I can see the printer, print fine, etc., but WiCD has brought my wired connection down. And, of course, it's vice-versa when I bring my wired connection back up. I do move my laptop around, and I use the Wifi as my main connection then, so I'd prefer not to have to dig in and hardwire something, especially as it's only when I connect to this one ESSID. Any ideas?

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Why are you using WiCD? Use NetworkManager. (the default way of connecting) – Ramchandra Apte Aug 8 '12 at 15:59
I started out in Kubuntu, meandered through several different WMs, and WiCD was what was there, and worked. I'll try it. – Shawn Aug 8 '12 at 16:08
No go. Problem is, I'm using Enlightenment as my wm, and it doesn't have a systray that NetworkManager's happy with. – Shawn Aug 9 '12 at 13:20
You can use network manager from the cmd line - try the nm-cli cmd. – Ramchandra Apte Aug 9 '12 at 13:25

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