On Lu, 20 aug 12, 22:49:04, James Allsopp wrote: > HI, > I'm running wicd on debian stable and unfortunately wicd can't > maintain the connection. Absolutely nothing about the rest of the > wireless network has changed. It keeps oscillating through > putting interface up > obtaining IP addresss > Done connecting > not connected. > > When you can get a ping going, gaps of four to six packets fail for > ever one that gets through. > > As part of writing this, I thought about taking out the other > network cable (currently attached to a raspberry PI, I'm trying to > bridge to) and that solved the problem, However, how to I make wicd > keep the wireless connection up with the other cable inserted, would > giving it a static IP help? From your description it seems to me that wicd is (trying to?) switching to the wired connection, but this is just a wild guess. Please explain what your current setup is and what you are actually trying to achieve (not how you think you might get there). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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