CrunchBang Linux

I am running #! on three computers, Asus eee pc 1005HA with Cruncheee, MSI A5000 with Statler, and a quad-core desktop with Statler. In spite of Corenominal's dire warnings about stability, I have found this distro to be nearly flawless.

The only real problems I have encountered are with wireless. I had continuous problems with dropped connections on the netbook until I replaced Network Mananger with wicd. This was a completely painless install. I did an apt-get and wicd installed and removed NM without issue. I was up and running again in minutes and the dropped connections disappeared completely.

However, on the other laptop running Statler, the situation was different. I was also suffering from very annoying dropped connections. When I attempted to install wicd, it failed to remove NM and there was an immediate conflict and no ability to connect.

Since I was running a dual boot, I verified that the connection issues were a problem with NM, because Win XP performed fine with the same hardware.

I used synaptic to manually remove NM, rebooted, reinstalled wicd, started the client and still could not connect. It kept reporting that it could not obtain an IP address. I reinstalled again with the same result.

I ended up removing wicd and reverting to NM, but was hoping that someone might know why wicd fails to install cleanly and remove NM as it did in previous #! releases.

Any advice on getting wicd to work would be appreciated.

I have the EeePC 1005HA and have been using #! with great results. I would like to install the controls for the function keys, but this link http://www.softwarebakery.com/download/ … 1005HA.deb doesn't work.

Is there an alternate location to grab this package?

Thanks.