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#1 2011-10-04 13:36:38

Clueless
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Registered: 2011-08-17
Posts: 16

Wicd fails to connect with a WEP key

I'm trying to connect to my wireless network after the recent update to net-tools. I sorted through most of my issues with the hostname command (I think) by installing inetutils and the recent update to wicd. Now, after trying to reconnect, my /var/log/wicd/wicd.log looks like the following:

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2011/10/04 09:23:48 :: trying to automatically connect to...UVEE2
2011/10/04 09:23:48 :: Connecting to wireless network UVEE2
dhcpcd[12869]: dhcpcd not running
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
dhcpcd[12912]: dhcpcd not running
2011/10/04 09:23:48 :: Putting interface down
2011/10/04 09:23:48 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
dhcpcd[12967]: dhcpcd not running
2011/10/04 09:23:48 :: Setting false IP...
2011/10/04 09:23:49 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
2011/10/04 09:23:49 :: Flushing the routing table...
2011/10/04 09:23:49 :: Putting interface up...
2011/10/04 09:23:51 :: Attempting to authenticate...
unlink[ctrl_iface]: No such file or directory
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
2011/10/04 09:23:51 :: connect result is Failed
2011/10/04 09:23:51 :: exiting connection thread
2011/10/04 09:23:51 :: Sending connection attempt result bad_pass
dhcpcd[13034]: dhcpcd not running
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
dhcpcd[13078]: dhcpcd not running

This looks strange to me because I am connecting to a wireless network that has a WEP hex key, and nothing in my configuration suggests any WPA key. I even tried rm-ing all of the *.conf files in /etc/wicd/ to no avail. Thank heavens for netcfg, or I think Arch Linux would have just blown my network stack again, the way the net-tools "upgrade" did smile

Does anyone have any tips on how to solve this?

P.S. Maybe it would be good to have some testing process for future updates affecting network connectivity? If this were my only computer I would totally have been dead in the water with the net-tools update. It took a sizable amount of time and effort to find out I needed to bootstrap the hostname command. For a while, before I figured to check the wicd logs, I was considering just dropping Arch Linux. Breaking the internet is just about the worst because you leave people with broken systems and no way to look up how to fix them.

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#2 2011-10-04 14:49:11

centenary
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Registered: 2010-11-27
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Re: Wicd fails to connect with a WEP key

Check out this other thread: link

Last edited by centenary (2011-10-04 14:49:48)

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#3 2011-10-04 21:16:19

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Registered: 2011-08-17
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Re: Wicd fails to connect with a WEP key

Sorry, but I don't think that thread applies here. That thread is dealing with the net-tools upgrade, and the missing hostname utility. I fixed that, dhcpcd works just fine. My problem is that after the wicd update, it tries to use WPA to connect to a network that I have specified as using WEP, so it fails to authenticate.

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