Why won't 10.10 connect?

[Waleed Hamra]

On 01/19/2011 10:19 PM, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> 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.
> 

glad that things worked. if you want to clean wicd correctly, rename the
folder back correctly, and copy/paste this in a terminal:

dpkg --get-selections | grep wicd

this will list the wicd related packages, which you can then remove,
because "wicd" is just a virtual package. the real wicd is installed as
wicd-gtk or wicd-client, etc... depending on what was chosen for the
interface.

-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems

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