wicd doesn't work

pottzie · 12-04-2010, 02:12 PM

I somehow lost wicd. the icon is still at the bottom of the screen, but show "no networks present.' When I run iwfonfig as root it shows eth0 and lo, but no wlan0. When i run iwconfig, it says eth0 and lo with "no wireless extensions."

manwichmakesameal · 12-04-2010, 02:52 PM

If this is a laptop, do you have the hardware turned off?

pottzie · 12-04-2010, 03:00 PM

No, it's a PC running 13.1, 32 bit. I just did a few things that got me a little further ahead. Ran lsusb, the (Belkin) wireless usb wasn't listed. Plugged it into another socket and it was recognized. I've had problems with the wrong date screwing things up and reset it using the "date" command. Now iwconfig shows wlan0, with a transmit power level, but no networks show when I click on the icon.

manwichmakesameal · 12-04-2010, 03:44 PM

As far as the date is concerned, do you have your bios/cmos time set different than your os? Now for wicd, try to remove /var/lib/wicd and logout and log back in.

pottzie · 12-04-2010, 07:21 PM

It's showing /var/lib/wicd as a directory, and I need to empty it before I can delete it. I tried "rmdir," but it won't work, and I can't think of a way to show the file(s?) so I can remove them.

catkin · 12-05-2010, 01:36 AM

rm -fr /var/lib/wicd

pottzie · 12-05-2010, 10:47 AM

I ran rm -fr /var/lib/wicd but still didn't show any network. so I removed wicd with pkgtool and reinstalled it, but have exactly what I had before removing and reinstalling. ifconfig shows power on, but no packets sent or received, or attempting to send or receive for that matter. eth0 and lo show no wireless extensions.

pottzie · 12-06-2010, 03:58 PM

I'm giving this another shot, and perhaps going to post under the networking forum also. I reinstalled Slack, thinking that would do the trick for sure, as I've had wireless working with this box in Slack previously. When I booted into the fresh installation, stilln no networks found. lsusb shows my Belkin usb reciever, iwconfig shows eth0, lo and wlan1

That's where I went.."Huh? Isn't it supposed to be wlan0?"
Anyone know if it's somehow looking at the wrong port, or whatever?
Slackware 13.1, 32 bit

markush · 12-06-2010, 04:38 PM

Hello pottzie,

the number wlan0 or wlan1 (and so on) is assigned by udev. If it is wlan1 now, you may have to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and change the configuration.

Referring to your original post, which encryption does your wireless network use?

Markus

unclejed613 · 12-07-2010, 09:26 AM

according to an answer i got from the developer of wicd, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 needs to be left "plain vanilla" for wicd to work properly. running netconfig or kde's network config tool will mess up wicd, with no real indication of what the problem is. it will appear that it "should" be working, but will for some unknown reason not work (been there done that, forgot to get the t-shirt)

interndan · 12-07-2010, 02:22 PM

I don't know if this will help... I had trouble with wicd on my laptop until I uninstalled wicd. I then downloaded the latest version of wicd and modified the build script in /extra (I think that is correct location) and created a new package. After instaling latest wicd my problems went away.