wireless driver+encryption on wicd

[NoOp]

On 10/06/2009 04:00 PM, Mike McMullin wrote:
> 
>   I'm trying to connect my laptop to my wireless base station using
> WICD, but cannot get a connect.
>   The base is using WPA Personal, WPA Algorithm: TKIP
>   The ESSID shows up but I cannot get a connection, in fact several
> secure networks show up.
>   The laptop has an Atheros AR2413 on the pci bus, and the kernel module
> in use is: ATH5K, Ubuntu9.04 with 2.6.28-15-generic.  I had been using
> the mad-wifi driver under openSuSE11.1.
> 
> 

Try:

$ sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

And then from within wicd: Preferences|Advanced Settings|WPA Supplicant
and select 'wext'.