WICD setup for Wireless connection...???

[Larry Shields]

On 11/02/2010 10:17 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>
>    
*Hello Nils,

Well I guess that I should have also mentioned that I did infact install 
it using synaptic...The icon is showing up on the top panel, yet it does 
not connect automatically, so what I do is click on the icon, then it 
does a scan, once it shows the ESSID I use the connect, it then does 
connect just fine...So all in all I suppose it is working fine, just was 
wondering if it can start up automatically at boot time, maybe not...

Thanks again for the reply...

Larry
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