I have been having problems with networkmanager so I tried to switch to wicd. However, it doesn’t work. When I hit refresh it says no wireless networks found but the wicd.log says it found {x} number which coincides with iwlist wlan0 scan.
I have uninstalled networkmanager and I have checked that wlan0 is in wicd’s preferences.
What needs to be done to get wicd to work in opensuse. Also where can I find the plasma version of wicd-kde? theirs nothing about it in the repos.
Can you post the full wicd.log to susepaste.org and give us the link here.
I have wicd running on one of my machines and as far as I remember I had
to change a wrong permission on one directory to make it work.
About a plasma version I do not know.
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On 05/13/2012 04:53 PM, Martin Helm wrote:
> Can you post the full wicd.log to susepaste.org and give us the link here.
> I have wicd running on one of my machines and as far as I remember I had
> to change a wrong permission on one directory to make it work.
> About a plasma version I do not know.
To help several Arch Linux users, I had to use wicd recently. It was very
difficult to get working, and it was extremely unstable causing the system to
freeze. Are you sure you want to use it?
Here is a link to my wicd.log
http://www.cybercpu.com/sites/default/files/wicd.log
I went though the log and can’t find anything out of the normal. wicd scans for ssid’s fine and even returns some but they never display in wicd.
That may be but the problems that networkmanager has are even worse. First you can’t spoof your mac address and if you try NM will not connect until it restores your default mac. Then when I am doing pen testing with a spoofed mac NM out of no where just tries to connect in turn resetting my mac again. When I first boot both wireless cards connect and the internet doesn’t work. I assume because of interference from both cards connecting to the same access point. Also I loose all internet access after about a half hour and have to turn wireless off and turn wireless back on. Its just getting annoying and I know wicd works great in backtrack so I figured I would give it a try here to. Honestly I don’t know why openSUSE uses such a buggy wireless manager. There are pages and pages of complaints about NM on Google. So much that trying to trouble shoot problems are imposable because of the number of problems people are having with it. I would just do everything from the console if it wasn’t for the pain you have to go though setting up wpa supplement.
Problem solved.
You have to change the permissions on /etc/wicd/encryption/
I set them to 777 because 644 did not work. I am sure 777 is not right but everything works now. What should the permissions on that folder be?
Am 14.05.2012 07:46, schrieb vdub12:
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> Problem solved.
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> You have to change the permissions on /etc/wicd/encryption/
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> I set them to 777 because 644 did not work. I am sure 777 is not right
> but everything works now. What should the permissions on that folder be?
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Setting on my machine is 755 for that directory.
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ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.3 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10