wicd doesn't work

[Shannon McMackin]

Raquel wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:42:22 -0600
> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>     I was told wicd is the way to go so I used apt-get to install
>> it. I have it installed on my 9.04 Jaunty Beta and when I got the
>> 8.10 working fine this wicd does nothing. I mean nothing!
>>
>>     Wicd says there is no WiFi in the area. In fact there is a VERY 
>> strong signal. I think there is a serious problem with wicd
>> software and man pages. I read all the man pages and am far more
>> confused than before :-)
>>
>>     Is there a simple way to get wicd to work?
>>
>> Karl
>>
> 
> More and more it sounds like you do not have the proper driver
> modules loaded/blacklisted.  In a previous post you were asked to
> provide the result of a few commands which might give us a hint into
> what may be the problem.  On my new HP, there was a need to blacklist
> one of the drivers that was being loaded as default, and to get some
> packages other than those originally installed.
> 
Thanks for reminding Karl that in most cases you must blacklist the 
ath5k driver which Ubuntu tries to use by default and install the 
madwifi driver.  That is if the backports module for your kernel doesn't 
fix your issues.