Re: Laptop wireless problem - very slight tangent

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 03 July 2016 19:59:50 deloptes wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have discovered something I find interesting in this, which does not
> > seem to be directly in reply to anything that has gone before - so it was
> > difficult
> > to place it in the thread.  I have deliberately broken the
> > "conversation", but not the thread.
> >
> > From the router's log:  Every time I try (once) to connect to the router
> > from the laptop with wicd, using the Intel card, it makes two attempts to
> > connect
> > and the router ALLOWS both.  So why, when it is allowed to connect, does
> > it
> > not do so???  I have checked this out specifically. :-/
> >
> > Lisi

Thanks. :-)

> I assume you have not changed passwords on the access point recently.

Yes, I have - but before the laptop had been told what it was.  When I had 
gone onto the router to add the MAC address of the laptop.  But I will try to 
retype it in the laptop.  I am a lousy typist and an almost equally lousy 
proofreader.

Meanwhile, it is now worse than it was before, and is not seeing the access 
point at all. :-(

> What could be an issue is that wicd can not access the password stored
> locally or have some other issue. I would look into this direction. perhaps
> you can run it with debug enabled and see where it fails.

If I can once get it started!  I thought that I would start again in the 
morning.

> It could be also 
> that your wpa_supplicant has issue(s).

Yes, I will investigate this.

> What I also think you should do, is change the name from eth1 to wlan0 if
> using jessie.

<gulp>.  It would obviously be helpful, but I have always heretofore just 
accepted the interface name I was given!  Google here I come again. 

Thanks.  
Lisi