<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>>----- Original Message -----<br>>From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh@bmarsh.com><br>>To: kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>>Sent: Friday, May 7, 2010 10:37:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>>Subject: Re: wireless connection problems<br>><br>>On Thursday, May 06, 2010, pkaplan1 wrote:<br>>> I used wicd under Karmic and this seems to be a total bust under<br>>> Lucid. It rejects all attempts to connect, telling me that my password<br>>> is incorrect (which it isn't).<br>>> <br>>> Have solutions to either network manager been posted?<br>>> Paul<br>><br>>I have NEVER gotten kmanager to connect in the last 3 kubuntu releases and <br>>always have to resort to a wired connection in order to install wicd. <br>><br>>And wicd has always worked well until lucid.<br>><br>>The problem?? Normally when you install wicd, it removes network manager <br>>and everything works well. For lucid, NM is NOT removed and this causes <br>>problems with wpa-supplicant having two copies, one for NM and the other for <br>>wicd.<br>><br>>The answer?? Remove NM like it should have been removed. Wicd will work <br>>fine after a reboot or shutdown of the running NM.<br><br>I did this (or so I thought).<div><br></div><div>What packages need to be removed before installing wicd?</div><div><br></div><div>How do I remove the duplicates of wpa-supplicant?<div>Paul<br><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>