OK I'm done with Ubuntu and now I need to fixup my laptop for wired/wireless on Debian so I can go to work on Monday. Debian is pretty forgiving if you are just going to plug in a wire or use the same wireless SSID you used during your netinstall, but if you need more than that you'll need a network manager to make it quick and easy.
"Network Manager" is actually a very popular network manager, but you know I like lightweight options. I'm gonna try wicd again (wireless interface connection daemon) even though I've had a few buggy issues come up with it in the past. Worst case we can wipe it and put in Network Manager in it's place later.
Since I'm running Lenny, wicd isn't in my repos it's actually in backports. A little Google takes me to this page. So a quick scrape of the page and a find/replace on my stuff yields this:
1) update repos with backports:
# geany /etc/apt/souces.list
2) Add this line to it:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
3) update
# aptitude update
4) this will throw an error, but since I'm gonna remove it from my repo list as soon as I get wicd I'm going to continue without installing their key.
5) get wicd
# aptitude -t lenny-backports install wicd
(added my user to the netdev group during install when prompted)
6) add wicd to my fluxbox menu
[exec] (Wicd) {/usr/bin/wicd-client -n} <>
That does it, now I've got a network manager. On to the next task.
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