Why won't 10.10 connect?

[Jerry Lapham]

On Monday, January 17, 2011 05:15:13 pm Jerry Lapham wrote:

> On Monday, January 17, 2011 02:38:46 am Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Monday, January 17, 2011, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > > 011/01/16 15:17:04 :: Putting interface up...
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:06 :: Generating psk...
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:06 :: Attempting to authenticate...
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:41 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:41 :: connect result is Failed
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:41 :: exiting connection thread
> > > 2011/01/16 15:17:41 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
> > > 
> > > It's the same wicd version talking to the same router using the same
> > > password.   Why does it work on 10.04 and not on 10.10?
> > 
> > Check for two copies of WPA_supplicant running.
> 
> Nope, just one.
> 
> > Or check if you also have networkmanager installed.   These two conflict
> > because they each bring up a copy of WPA-sup....   and that just doesn't
> > work.
> > 
> > If networkmanager is installed,  purge it.
> 
> It's not installed.

Shortly after this reply I noticed that an icon for networkmanager appeared (I 
hadn't seen it before) and it finally connected.  Then wicd also showed it 
connected.  They both connected then dropped intermittently as though they 
were fighting each other.

Since I didn't seem to be able to uninstall networkmanager, I decided to give 
up and uninstall wicd.  But when I tried "apt-get remove wicd" it said it 
wasn't installed.  I ended up renaming "/usr/share/wicd" to keep it from 
loading and now networkmanager connects and stays connected.

Kind of crude, but it worked.

	-Jerry
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