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Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect



On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:47 Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K
> module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled all day with
> /etc/network/interfaces with no luck. I then tried wicd and this does
> show my router, but it won't connect. Are there any tweaks that may make
> it connect?
> 
> The router does not have encryption but broadcast of its essid is
> disabled. This does not prevent wicd from seeing it.
> 
> Anthony

I have nothing about wlan0 in etc/network/interfaces using wicd. Also, wicd may 
conflict with network-manager which I removed. Doing this removed about 20 
packages also. Dont worry it works.

Thierry


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