can't get wicd to work

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

I'm trying to get my wifi set up under wheezy using wicd.

I've followed all the instructions at:

https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd

When I do ~/$ wicd-client -n I get:

"No wireless networks found."



The following is the output from the session:
(My username is 'tom'.)

~/$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

root@debian:/home/tom# adduser tom netdev
The user `tom' is already a member of `netdev'.
root@debian:/home/tom#

root@debian:/home/tom#  /etc/init.d/dbus reload
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
root@debian:/home/tom#

root@debian:/home/tom#  /etc/init.d/wicd start
[ ok ] Starting Network connection manager: wicd.
root@debian:/home/tom#

root@debian:/home/tom# exit
exit
  ~/$ wicd-client -n
  Has notifications support True
  Loading...
  Connecting to daemon...
  Connected.
  refreshing...

And get:

"No wireless networks found."

on the gui.

I tried the same procedure with 'lo' changed to 'wlan0'.

The following is output of ifconfig and iwconfig:

root@debian:/home/tom# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f
          inet addr:192.168.0.14  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe2f:f38f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1027 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:981 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:471487 (460.4 KiB)  TX bytes:159963 (156.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:17

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1544 (1.5 KiB)  TX bytes:1544 (1.5 KiB)

root@debian:/home/tom#

root@debian:/home/tom# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on

eth0      no wireless extensions.

root@debian:/home/tom#



What am I doing wrong?