I was using wicd on a spotty network, the house blocked a lot of the signal from moving around, so wicd was having major issues with that AP. Later I was trying to connect to another AP but wicd couldn't connect plus it was saying the spotty network's name was the one it was connecting to. Although I didn't try before I left/gave up I'm sure a restart of the wicd daemon would have solved it.

But why is this even the case? is there something I could add to the scripts that would clear this issue up?

(I also submitted a bug on wicd's launchpad project but haven't gotten any response... I hope this isn't a 'feature')

Hello chrisportela,

my experience with wicd is, the only reasonable action for this program is to uninstall it.

You should try wpa_supplicant without wicd, this is the most reliable setup in most cases.

Markus

Well I was unable to connect to my network using wpa_supplicant. I couldn't get the config files to work correctly unless I used some 'quick connect' utility which I don't think I have installed on this machine anymore after I re-installed arch.

Where could I go to figure it out but it actually works because the arch wiki didn't help. Or at least they were missing something.

Could you please provide more information about your network (which encryption) and you hardware, which NIC? please post the output of and Markus