USB Modem on SolydX

Instead of gnome-network-manager, SolydX is bundled with Wicd-network-manager. It is said to be lighter than the gnome-network-manager.

Unfortunately, Wicd-network-manager cannot detect USB modem plugged in the machine, so the user using USB modem for connection, gnome-network-manager is more suitable since it can detect the USB modem plugged in.

Laptop user having wireless connection is simply need to find Internet connection somewhere else to download the gnome-network-manager applet from the repository using synaptic package manager.

Connect into wireless network using Wicd.

Open menu - settings - synaptic package manager.

find gnome-network-manager, right click and choose mark for installation then click apply.

The download and installation information process are shown here.

And the installation process is done.

Open the gnome-network-manager.

Add your broadband connection and configure it through the wizard.

And done.

To stop the wicd running at startup, click menu-settings-session and startup then uncheck wicd-network-manager tray and reboot.

For desktop PC that doesn't have any wireless connection, the .deb package can be downloaded from another PC that already has an internet connection at http://debian.solydxk.com/production/pool/main/ and install it with the command sudo dpkg -i *.deb . Here is the list of all dependencies package :