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It looks like it's starting, but not connecting. Have you reached the point of configuring a wireless network and passkey? If not, it could be waiting for a connection to be configured. Have you tried starting the wicd GUI with the command "wicd-client" (you may need to do this as root; if it works, put it in your startup applications).
Let us know what happens. It can help additional troubleshooting.
According to the Arch wiki, wicd-gtk is the name of the client package. At least for Arch, it has been split off into a separate package from the wicd base package.
You might check your repos to see whether it exists as a separate package. When I installed on Slackware, I just needed one package (it was on the Slackware extra's CD), and I can't speak for Fedora.
There's some more information at the wicd page on Sourceforge, but I think it may be a little out-dated for your situation. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
I hope this helps; I don't feel particularly optimistic about my Google-fu on this one, I fear. Good luck.
I guess I will have to go back to NetworkManager, because wicd just won't do it , I get to the point to see AP's available and Properties to set key and IP's and when I click on OK and it does nothing. Nothing is happening.
I prefer wicd, but I did have one Ubuntu system on which wicd stopped working after an upgrade and I had to fall back to network manager. I never figured out why wicd stopped, but, frankly, I didn't try very hard. I found that network manager had improved significantly in the interim.
I've found wicd is EXTREMELY sensative if you have any other network management software installed. So if network-manager is installed still, even if it's not actively configured to manage an interface, I've found wicd will fail.
Also, after setting passkey in wicd, you have to actively tell it to connect again (irritating little thing). If you chose "connect automatically" it will in FUTURE boots connect automatically, but for that one time, will not connect until actively told to again.
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