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marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

[SOLVED - SORT OF] wicd & ACER D255E

I am unable to make wicd work.  It works very well on my EEE700 but my Acer refuses to cooperate.
There seems to be a problem with dhcpcd.  I get in the log :

wlan0 waiting for a carrier
sending command to master dhcpcd process
control command: /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -k wlan0
wlan0: removing interface

On the other hand, my EEE goes into the process of broadcasting for a lease and everything and all is fine.

What is wrong with me

Last edited by marxav (2011-05-16 21:25:30)

pnutzh4x0r

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Registered: 2009-08-11

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED - SORT OF] wicd & ACER D255E

You can try using dhclient rather than dhcpcd.  On my machine, dhclient enabled me to maintain a connection while dhcpcd would frequently disconnect.

marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Re: [SOLVED - SORT OF] wicd & ACER D255E

I tried that too as I have been reading that sometime replacing dhcpcd with dhclient helps.
But it is not working.  I get

No working lease in persistent database - sleeping

marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Re: [SOLVED - SORT OF] wicd & ACER D255E

Now, that is interesting!!
In my area, there are two access points with the same ESSID.  Mine, which is WPA2 and an unsecured one (a neighboor)  If I select that unsecured one with wicd-curses, I get an IP, but it is my wpa2 that gets highlighted.  I know I am not connected to my router because mine is in the 10.0.1 but I get a 192.168.1.108

Total confusion

marxav

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From: Gatineau, PQ, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-24

Posts: 386

Re: [SOLVED - SORT OF] wicd & ACER D255E

I gave up on wicd for now.  I went with networkmanager until I find a way to get wicd working.