WICD setup for Wireless connection...???

[Larry Shields]

On 11/02/2010 12:30 PM, Mike McGinn wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 13:14:12 Larry Shields wrote:
>    
>> On 11/02/2010 10:52 AM, R Kimber wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:05:34 -0500
>>>
>>> Larry Shields wrote:
>>>        
>>>>> Have you got wpasupplicant installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> - Richard.
>>>>>            
>>>> *Hi Richard - - To answer your question, yes I do have it installed...
>>>>          
>>> OK. Well I don't use WICD myself, but I've had plenty of problems getting
>>> wireless connections working.  In the end, I concluded that the problem
>>> was due to the keyring thingy.  Having entered my wpa key in the network
>>> manager setup, it wasn't obvious to me that I also had to enter it again
>>> in the window that pops up just after you log on.  To begin with I
>>> thought it was asking me for my user password and entered that. That
>>> didn't work, and I wasn't offered another chance until I opted for the
>>> Microsoft solution and re-booted.  After I entered the wpa key again,
>>> everything worked. Maybe your problem is something like this?
>>>
>>> - Richard.
>>>        
>> *Hi Richard,
>>
>> Nope it is not the KEY RING, I do have WICD working, I was thinking that
>> I needed to edit some script or script's for it too work correctly...But
>> it is now working just fine, although I'd love to have it automatically
>> start up when logging in...NO KEY RING is being asked on my system...
>>
>> Larry
>> *
>>      
> edit /etc/default/wicd so it starts automatically.
>
>
>    
# Use "yes" (without quotes) to make /etc/init.d/wicd start the WICD daemon.
START_DAEMON=yes

*I see that it is setup that way, so maybe I am not waiting long enough...

Thanks Larry
*

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