[SOLVED] Wicd not accepting wifi configuration - Slackware64 -current
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Wicd not accepting wifi configuration - Slackware64 -current
I've just done a fresh install of Slackware64 -current and installed wicd. When I click properties below any network, the 'ok' and 'cancel' buttons don't work, and exiting the window doesn't save my configuration. Amy suggestions on what to try?
wicd has been giving me fits.
I can't get it to work on any of my boxes since the upgrade.(13.37 & current)
I tried kde network manager on one box but it choked back some how.
I could nav a site but could not download anything.
Going to do a fresh install and play with wicd to see what I can figure out.
wicd has been giving me fits.
I can't get it to work on any of my boxes since the upgrade.(13.37 & current)
I tried kde network manager on one box but it choked back some how.
I could nav a site but could not download anything.
Going to do a fresh install and play with wicd to see what I can figure out.
I was having problems as well before my fresh install and I couldn't figure it out, so that's why I did the fresh install.
@markush: Thanks for the advice, I'm well aware of doing it that way, but it's on a laptop I don't want to be editing wpa_supplicant.conf every time I switch APs.
Slackware should upgrade to 1.7.3 as soon as that one is out, as version 1.7.2.4 doesn't work at all if you're trying to connect to a new network. Or patch the 1.7.2.4 package anyway.
Actually, if I recall you can add a bunch of AP's into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and just use rc.inet1.conf to pick whichever one you want to use. If you don't set it, I believe it uses the connection with the best signal.
Actually, if I recall you can add a bunch of AP's into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and just use rc.inet1.conf to pick whichever one you want to use. If you don't set it, I believe it uses the connection with the best signal.
Interesting comment, I'll look into this. Perhaps I'll have to start keeping wpa_supplicant.conf sync'd in Dropbox and copy the new version over every time I install Slackware (assuming I can get an internet connection somewhere).
I'm marking this as solved as it's a known bug (not just me) and it looks like it's gonna get fixed soon.
Meh, I can wait for a little while. Ever since I finished school, the laptop gets used for the odd overnight trip for work and for experimenting with Linux. I just went through installing Slackware64 for the first time (having never used a 64-bit distro before) with LVM+LUKS (also the first time for encryption and logical volumes). Other than this bug in wicd that isn't my fault, there weren't any major hiccups. This weekend I'm either playing lots of video games or installing a multilib environment, haven't decided which yet.
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