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#1 2009-02-23 03:36:48
- capnfabs
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Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
Hi,
I've been playing around with Wicd for a few days now, trying to get it to connect to my home wireless network (using WEP security for back-compatibility reasons).
It connects fine the first time every boot, but after that, it fails to get an IP address; it doesn't matter if I use dhcpcd or dhclient. I can, however, emulate all the steps that Wicd takes in a terminal and it connects without a hitch every time (as per this post: http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=277).
Does anyone have any ideas?
I'm using the broadcom-wl driver, wicd 1.5.8-1 and kernel26 2.6.28-4.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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#2 2009-03-03 23:43:42
- abijr
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
I had the same problem when updating,
what I did was downgrade the wicd package to 1.5.4-4
(fortunately I had it on my pacman cache)
And it worked without problems.
Most probably it is a wicd bug, not something from our system
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#3 2009-03-04 09:23:11
- capnfabs
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
wow, that's fantastic! thanks heaps! I've started using netcfg in the meantime and that works fantastically (but it took a lot of configuration and troubleshooting to work on my uni's network).
I tried the older version of wicd, and it didn't work any better. Thanks for the advice though! Really appreciated.
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#4 2009-03-04 14:42:25
- tjwoosta
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
I had the same problem when updating,
what I did was downgrade the wicd package to 1.5.4-4
(fortunately I had it on my pacman cache)
And it worked without problems.Most probably it is a wicd bug, not something from our system
ive never had any problems
i use wicd from the arch repos
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#5 2009-03-04 15:04:35
- brazzmonkey
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
I've been into similar problems recently : wifi gets disconnected and wicd is not able to get an IP upon new connection.
I have to cancel the attempt to re-connect, refresh network list and manually launch a new connection attempt. Then it works (until it happens again). I thought this was an issue related to my wifi router. Looks like it's not.
what goes up must come down
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#6 2009-03-30 22:12:22
- MindTooth
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
I can confirm this bug. If I use iwconfig and dhcpd, I get my wireless to work. But noe with Wicd.
Birger 
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#7 2009-03-31 09:43:06
- ChoK
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Re: Wicd fails to obtain an IP address
Bug confirmed, my first attempt always works, but if I get disconnected I can't authenticate or get an IP address with wicd, I have to wait a while.
By the way, you really should use wpa for encryption because wep is crackable very easily, check aircrack-ng : matter of minutes
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