I'd like to use the first tool for establishing a 3G connection, but the other seems more apt for wifi. Running both together seems like a road to disaster. But how could it stop one completely and make the other run without restarting the laptop? service NetworkManager start doesn't seem to do the trick. And I also need wicd to be closed cleanly, without shooting down essential services that will be used by network manager.
Using network manager and wicd together in Ubuntu?
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