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    wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

    I just received my shiny new Studio XPS 13 from Dell and I installed Kubuntu Jaunty 64 because Dell only pre-ships Ubuntu to the US and not Canada.

    This is my first venture into 64 bit computing and I'm having issues with wicd and connecting to wireless networks. The plamsa network manager widget is just terrible and doesn't work. It did work for the live CD install, but now is useless. wicd I have used before on other computers and figured it would work, but when I get 'connected' to a wireless networks, it shows the connection strength at 0% and then disconnects.

    Here are some computer details:

    Network card from lspci:
    Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
    Output from ifconfig:
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:19:f7:39:03
    inet addr:192.168.0.187 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    inet6 addr: fe80::222:19ff:fef7:3903/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:39628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:32264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:40401223 (40.4 MB) TX bytes:4267560 (4.2 MB)
    Interrupt:19 Base address:0x4000

    eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2c:5b:60:83
    inet6 addr: fe80::224:2cff:fe5b:6083/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:398
    TX packets:19 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:862 (862.0 B) TX bytes:4060 (4.0 KB)
    Interrupt:21

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
    inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:1928 (1.9 KB) TX bytes:1928 (1.9 KB)
    The restricted modules are installed, and backports causes the wireless card to disappear. I have tried the bw43xx package and that doesn't work. And according to the proprietary drive information, I'm currently running the Broadcom STA driver.

    Any help on this would be great as right now I'm am connected via a wired connect but would obviously love to get wireless.
    Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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    #2
    Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

    It really seems like a driver issue. I would recommend getting a shot to the latest kernel from karmic (please install the kernel only), it may give you a woking wifi out of the box. HTH!
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      Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

      Stupid question...

      How would I got about doing that?
      Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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        Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

        what do you use to add/remove software ?
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          Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

          I'm using kpackagekit and my only kernel options are the one I already have installed. So the latest is:

          uname -a:
          Code:
          Linux daniel-studioXPS 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
          Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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            Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

            Sure. First add this repository (only temporarily)

            deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic main restricted

            Then reload the package list, and search for packages including "Linux" in the name. Add the latest for Karmic, only if this doesn't trigger updating other stuff (like libraries, other software, etc). The latest kernel should be 2.6.31-something). You should look at what kernel packages you have now, and install the corresponding ones from karmic.

            That's all, reboot and choose that kernel. The old one will still be there just in case. After the install please disable the karmic repo.
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              Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

              I gave it a shot and X wouldn't start due to a conflict with the nvidia driver (i think). I'll have to try this again in a bit. Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes.
              Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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                #8
                Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                Ah, maybe a shortcut is "kdesudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf", and change the driver from "nvidia" to "nv" (or just disable it temporarily from " hardware drivers " ). If you don't get wifi with the newest kernel, there is no point in digging any further ...
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                  #9
                  Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                  In a WTF moment, reinstalling wicd did the trick!

                  No it didn't. It connected for about 30 seconds and then disconnected and reconnected at 0%.
                  Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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                    #10
                    Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                    LOL! You'll get it running, I am sure!
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                      Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                      Well I tried something random. And by random, I mean deactivate the Broadcom proprietary driver and (re)install wicd.

                      And now it's working. I'm hesitant to consider this solved until I can connect to the wireless at home. But in the lab at school I'm posting this update via the wireless network.

                      Stay tuned for more... :P
                      Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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                        #12
                        Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                        No dice. After about 30 minutes of glorious wireless, it failed and couldn't reconnect in the lab or at home.

                        I just upgrade to the newest kernel 2.6.28-14-generic and it still is not working.
                        Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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                          Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                          Did you try the karmic one? It takes about 5 minutes to try that ... (the latest update is a security update for some vulerabilities, it will not change things for you)
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                            Re: wicd connects to wireless networks at 0%

                            I have because as of right now there is no restricted module update available. And I don't know how that will affect my system.
                            Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
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