WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

[CraigPaleo]

If I log into Gnome and connect to the Internet, my wireless strength shows 4 or 5 bars. If I log back out and then directly into KDE, I'm still connected to the Internet. The planet icon is green but shows no signal strength.

If I boot up and log directly into KDE first, the network manager will see my router but shows it as having a very weak signal and will time out when trying to connect - leaving me with a gray planet icon. What could the problem be? I've read a couple of other posts about wicd but cannot find it in the repositories.

[flarson]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

wicd is in the universe repository. You may need to uncomment the line for universe in /etc/apt/sources.list, or in Kpackagekit->Settings->Edit Software Sources->Kubuntu Software make sure universe is checked. In fact, you might want to think about enabling all the repositories. Then find wicd in kpackagekit and install it, or do it the easy way.
Run
sudo aptitude update
and
sudo aptitude install wicd

[CraigPaleo]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

Hmmm! I have a few problems. I'm running KDE 4.2.2 if that makes any difference.

1. I don't have Kpackagekit, nor can I find it. I have Adept.
2. When I click on sources.list, Software Sources pops up and Universe is already checked.
3. When I run sudo aptitude update I get the following with an error for the launchpad ppa:

desktop:~/Documents$ sudo aptitude update
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security Release.gpg
Ign [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/main Translation-en_US          
Hit [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid Release.gpg                   
Ign [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid/free Translation-en_US             
Get:1 [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid Release.gpg [307B]                 
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid Release.gpg                   
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/main Translation-en_US              
Hit [url]http://archive.canonical.com[/url] intrepid Release.gpg                   
Ign [url]http://archive.canonical.com[/url] intrepid/partner Translation-en_US            
Ign [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid/main Translation-en_US                
Ign [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_US       
Ign [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_US        
Ign [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US       
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security Release                  
Ign [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US           
Hit [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid Release                     
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US           
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/universe Translation-en_US            
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_US           
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates Release.gpg               
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_US          
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US       
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_US        
Ign [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US       
Hit [url]http://archive.canonical.com[/url] intrepid Release                     
Get:2 [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid Release [46.7kB]                  
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid Release                     
Ign [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid Release                       
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/main Packages               
Hit [url]http://winff.org[/url] intrepid Release.gpg                         
Ign [url]http://winff.org[/url] intrepid/universe Translation-en_US                  
Hit [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid/free Packages                  
Hit [url]http://archive.canonical.com[/url] intrepid/partner Packages                 
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates Release                 
Ign [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid/main Packages                    
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/restricted Packages            
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/main Sources               
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/restricted Sources            
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/universe Packages             
Hit [url]http://packages.medibuntu.org[/url] intrepid/non-free Packages                
Hit [url]http://winff.org[/url] intrepid Release                           
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/main Packages                  
Hit [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid/main Packages         
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/restricted Packages    
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/main Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/restricted Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/universe Packages
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/universe Sources  
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/multiverse Packages 
Hit [url]http://security.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-security/multiverse Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/universe Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/multiverse Packages
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid/multiverse Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/main Packages
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/main Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Hit [url]http://winff.org[/url] intrepid/universe Packages
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/universe Sources
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com[/url] intrepid-updates/multiverse Sources
Fetched 308B in 1s (288B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net[/url] intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 60487016493B3065
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

[CraigPaleo]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

Any Idea what might be going on?

[flarson]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

you have a source in /etc/apt/sources.list that uses
http://ppa.launchpad.net
Comment it with a # and update again.

[CraigPaleo]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

I've tried commenting it with Kate, Text Editor and Mousepad. None will give me permission to save it. I've tried to change the permissions of the file under "properties" but it won't let me. Under "advanced permissions", same thing. I'm unable to choose anything.

I notice that user and group are both root. I was never asked for a password. Should I be doing this from the command line? If so, how?

[flarson]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

[CraigPaleo]

Re: WiFi Doesn't Work Unless I Log into Gnome First

Thanks!!!! I'm going to try rebooting directly into KDE. Both wicd and Kpackagekit were installed!