What does "Verifying access point association" mean, and what do you
do to make it OK?
I have several Debian boxes, Wheezy and Jessie. Wired and wireless (3
wireless -- wicd manged). 2 of then are Raspberry Pi 3's the other is
a GoBook laptop. All 3 are Jessie. All are XFCE4.
A few days ago, for no reason I can think of but surely something (I
futz with my computers all the time, but I swear I did nothing to the
laptop), they started failing to connect with the AP. Everything went
smoothly until that step. Then they stayed there for a long time, then
said it couldn't connect.
When I shut down the laptop one night, all was well. When it started
the next morning, things were bent.
All have ethernet connectors, and all work successfully on Ethernet --
all connected by wicd.
I replaced the chip in one of the Pi's with a backup, and it started
working. I've copied its wicd directory and its wpa-supplicant
directory to the laptop (and rebooted after each), with no success.
I've looked on the 'Net for anything that could be causing this, nada.
The Apple AP is OK, I think, because one of the Pi's and the MacAir
works. The other 2 Debians worked until recently.
Any explanation(s) would be gratefully appreciated. Reinstalling on
the Pi's is reasonable, although its OS has been modified a bit. But
the laptop would be a major job.