WICD

[tomp01]

I have always used Wicd in preference to KNetworkManager but found that it wouldn't work in the alpha release. Tried it again today and it still doesn't work, does anybody know why this is?

[kjjjjshab]

Re: WICD

System Settings -> Advanced -> Hardware... make sure the network backend is set at wicd first (use the arrow button to move it up the list).

I don't know if this matters, but it is worth a shot.

[PJJ]

Re: WICD

I have used wicd through all alpha releases and into Beta.
Always worked and still is working.

Never had to change setup from the original.
Without your settings there is no way of telling what could be wrong.

[tomp01]

Re: WICD

I have used wicd through all alpha releases and into Beta.
Always worked and still is working.

Never had to change setup from the original.
Without your settings there is no way of telling what could be wrong.

I have used wicd for years now and always found it to be reliable but I not been able to get it to work at all this time. I reinstalled KK several days ago and after applying all the available updates tried it again with the same result. So even after a fresh install I couldn't get it to work, surely with one week to go to the final release you would expect it to work. Anyway I went back to knetworkmanager which now seems to behave itself especially compared to how it used to be. I am surprised that nobody else has this problem.

[tomp01]

Re: WICD

I've run Knetworkmanager for a couple of weeks on the daily builds of Karmic which was the first build that did not cause great problems with WPA.
But then I had to travel and realised I missed the no-nonsense interface of wicd so I reinstalled it.
And indeed it's easier to use than Knetworkmanager.

Because WIFI problems are usually related to the available hardware here's the WIFI relevant output of:

sudo lspci -v

I have used Wicd since Hardy Heron without any problems using the exact same hardware, the problem is that it won't run at all in KK it just crashes. I also tried running in Ubuntu but the same thing happens.

[tomp01]

Re: WICD

So you want to check the logs to see what causes the crash.
Starting wicd from the terminal will give you a quick answer.

A hint; to check whether everything is installed you need to have wicd, wicd-client, wicd-monitor and (probably) wpa_supplicant running.

I did run it from the terminal but I can't remember the details. My purpose in posting was to find out if anybody else has had this problem but apparently not so far.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: WICD

Do you have networkmanager installed? It seems to me that they both couldnt co-exist for some reason, ie when I would install wicd it would remove networkmanager...

[tomp01]

Re: WICD

Do you have networkmanager installed? It seems to me that they both couldnt co-exist for some reason, ie when I would install wicd it would remove networkmanager...

Yes, knetworkmanager was removed when I installed wicd.

[kevinc]

Re: WICD

In Karmic, plasma-widget-network-manager seems to be working better than wicd.
In Alpha 3 I tried nm, then wicd, in Alpha 6, I went back to nm and found it worked better, now Karmic is at RC and just about ready for the world.

Check you /etc/network/interfaces as it is probable that wicd has messed things up. If you are using a router with dhcp, then delete all of the lines added by wicd and put in place

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Note: if you are using WPA2 then you will also need to add the extra lines

wpa2-ssid
wap2-psk

[flarson]

Re: WICD

Wicd does not write to /etc/network/interfaces. Having the wlan0 interface in /etc/network/interfaces may cause wicd to fail. Having wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces should also cause network-manager to ignore wlan0, so don't put it in interfaces if you want to run network-manager or wicd. Did you try kjjjjshab's sugestion? It is likely to be the answer.

[kevinc]

Re: WICD

@Mando Thanks for that. I noticed that wicd doesn't use /etc/network/interfaces in Jaunty and tried it in Karmic. After removing wicd and then going back to nm in Karmic, my box connected quickly to the router with wpa2 having the lines in /etc/network/interfaces, so I left them there.

I did notice when briefly trying wicd that /etc/network/interfaces wasn't being used.

Apologies for misleading anyone.