If you're using
wicd, you should first be sure you're using the most recent release. However, even with that release, I had some problems using WPA2. (You're supposed to be able to configure it from the "properties" button network selection box, but that didn't work for me on one of my systems but it worked fine on others.) So, what I did was to hard-code my network information in
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, and that seemed to do the trick. (Note that I'm using a Fedora system, so my conf file location may differ from the Slack one.)
If you do a complete
wicd install, you should have the
wicd-curses package also installed, which provides a command-line
wicd interface. That may be a separate package on Slack, but it should be available.
I understand that I haven't provided many details, but
man wpa_supplicant.conf does describe the process fairly well.
Here's what my
wicd configuration file looks like on a system where
wicd works:
Code:
$ sudo cat /var/lib/wicd/configurations/00150544e96d
[sudo] password for Peter:
ap_scan=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="TSS3"
scan_ssid=0
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk=<- Redacted ->
}
Since you're using a different scheme, you need to "tweak" that example per the instructions the the
wpa_supplicant manual pages.
