WICD setup for Wireless connection...???

[Nils Kassube]

Larry Shields wrote:
> On 11/02/2010 03:31 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Larry Shields wrote:
> >> *I have tried searching via google for a good set of doc's for
> >> WICD, yet so far really none have been all that great...
> >> I would like to know if anyone who is running a wireless
> >> connection using WPA-WPA2 setup, as how you have set yours up to
> >> work, encluding scripts or what ever else that maybe needed...
> > 
> > I'm using Wicd with WPA2 on my laptop. There is no extra script
> > needed. The configuration is explained on this page:
> > <http://wicd.sourceforge.net/moinmoin/Wicd%20on%20Ubuntu>
> > 
> > If that isn't sufficient for you, can you describe what doesn't
> > work?
> 
> Thanks for the URL, I did add what it had asked for too the software
> sources. But I had a problem in getting the gpg key to work...
> All though WICD seems to be working ok, except for the fact that I
> have to start it each time I bootup the system...

Hmm, maybe I should have mentioned that you can easily use the wicd 
package from the Ubuntu repositories, i.e. without adding software 
sources or the gpg key. Anyway, if you start wicd the first time you 
should get an icon in the panel and that icon should be there after a 
reboot as well. If you click on the icon you should get the wicd 
configuration window. And if you have checked the option to 
automatically connect to your network, you should get the network 
connection even without opening the wicd window. Maybe you just didn't 
notice the wicd icon in the panel?


Nils