Missing the option "none of them".
Just find them an unnecessary layer, wpa_cli & rc.inet1 are enough to me

NetworkManager I found simple instructions and it was installed during Full Install I got it working and its working well. Havent use wicd yet due to it being extra and not installed by default.

more than I can say for debian 7.0.0 which was a nightmare couldnt get wireless working in it due to missing source and debian's love to keep debian free and abolish all non free firmware. not knocking the debian free open source policy but could be better.

I didn't know about wicd in the first place so I use NM. But I'll have a look at it, now that I know it exists...

<edit> wicd doesn't support 3g mobile connections. I'm a country bumpkin with exclusively mobile connectivity, so forget it... </edit>

NetworkManager here; it hasn't let me down yet.
I've had trouble with wicd connecting to new wifi networks.

I have problem with wicd by establish PPPoE connection, so my choose always was NM.
P.S. I don't use now pure Slackware but derivate distro Agilia Linux

Missing option wpa_supplicant.

NetworkManager.

I had some issues with wicd under slackware 13.37.
It lost my WiFi connection sometimes.
I never had this problem with NetworkManager and the applet looks good in KDE

I wrote my own script around wpa_supplicant, iwconfig, and dhcpcd, and then wrapped that script with network-specific scripts (one for home, one for work, one for gramma's house, etc) which just pass network-specific parameters to the main script.

The few times I tried NM, it was usually excruciatingly slow, and sometimes unreliable.

I've been meaning to generalize my scripts into a wicd-like configuration-driven daemon (no user interface, just sits in the background and DTRT), but it's a backburner project and might never see the light of day. Since most people seem happy with wicd or NM, and I'm happy with my ad-hoc solution, there's not a lot of impetus.

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I wouldn't mind seeing those scripts, if you happen to feel like sharing. I am not great at networking tasks, and one of my goals for the summer is to sit down and figure it all out.

Sure! I apologize in advance for their messiness. I'll write a page of docs to help you figure out what's what, tar them up, and post a link here later today or tomorrow.

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Wow, that is really nice of you! Don't go to too much trouble. I just meant you could post what you had. Of course, I will be more than grateful for whatever you feel like sharing!

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I tried NM but it did not had CLI like wicd-curses, so i'm using Wicd again.

You're awesome, thanks!

i use networkmanager, why? it works with KDE out of the box and has a vpnc plugin.