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james

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 13

wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

After the update to wicd 1.6 I can no longer connect with my iwl3945 to a WPA2-PSK network with a hidden ESSID.
I have no problems if I connect with wpa_supplicant.
Is there a way to downgrade wicd?

s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

Check the Wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages

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james

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 13

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

Thank you! The downgrade solved the problem.

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I am also having a problem with wicd 1.6.0. In some locations it will endlessly say "obtaining IP address" and the tray icon will show I am not connected, when I in fact am connected. This problem appeared immediately upon upgrading to 1.6.0. I've posted about it in the wicd forums here: http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=597. But have yet to find a solution.

s3kt0r

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Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 208

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

@ cb474, was 1.5.9 (if I remember it right) working ok? Try to roll back to previous version, if it works just stick with it until the problem is solved in a next version.

@ james, great! welcome to arch.

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cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

Thanks. Yeah 1.5.9 was working fine. I probably will roll back, I'm just trying to trouble shoot the problem with the wicd developer's help on the wicd forum so that hopefully the problem does get fixed. Since I don't see anyone else reporting this yet, I don't want it be one of those little quirks that some people have and never gets addressed.

cameel

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Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 3

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I have the same problem after upgrade.

Moreover, selecting "always switch to a wired connection when available" in preferences caused some problems with resolving DNS names.

Richer

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 19

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I have problems with wired and wireless connections. Same situation of cb474 "endlessly say "obtaining IP address" and the tray icon will show I am not connected" and can't cancel the connection. I try to roll back too

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I can only encourage you to post that you're seeing the same problem, in my thread on this over in the wicd forums, so the developers know it's not just something quirky with my system:

http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=597

(Be forewarned, I've noticed the wicd forum is down a lot, lately, for some reason. But if you try again later it's usually working.)

Richer

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 19

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I found at least my "solution". When i execute wicd as a program (not daemon) --- wicd -foe ---. The program works perfectly, not problem at all. But when i execute wicd as a daemon --- wicd --- or --- /etc/rc.d/wicd start ---(is the same), simple it does'nt work and keeps saying obtaining IP address.

I'm searching for solution or at least know how wicd -foe works or how different is from the daemon version. BTW i'm looking in the wicd IRC channel

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I found the same thing to be true.

uwinkelvos

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Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 129

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

I found at least my "solution". When i execute wicd as a program (not daemon) --- wicd -foe ---. The program works perfectly, not problem at all. But when i execute wicd as a daemon --- wicd --- or --- /etc/rc.d/wicd start ---(is the same), simple it does'nt work and keeps saying obtaining IP address.

I'm searching for solution or at least know how wicd -foe works or how different is from the daemon version. BTW i'm looking in the wicd IRC channel

I had to change the dhcp in external programms to dhclient and i works. dhcpcd always hangs like you described at "obtaining ip adress"

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

Yes, the wicd developers just led me to the same workaround. After finally getting the right information to them from my wicd.log, the developer dano figured out the problem and wrote:

The connection thread is blowing up when it tries to print out a line being outputted by dhcpcd containing some weird characters.  As a quick workaround you can try using dhclient instead, but I'll code up a fix for it as well.

Richer

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 19

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

[ Solved ] Connecting to hidden network is a known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/388116, so maybe try de bzr version or wait for next release

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: wicd 1.6 cannot connect to hidden ESSIDs / downgrade possible?

Regarding the problem I was having with wicd saying it was obtaining an IP address, even when it was already connected, the problem seems to be solved now in the latest trunk version of wicd, which I installed following the developers instructions in this thread at the wicd forums:

http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=2433