topic title: How to get wifi working with wicd
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#1
This is from Dave.
wifi-wicd-t3289.html

If you know the wireless interface skip to step 2 if not follow this:
menu --> run
type: gksu roxterm
press: ok
type: your root password
press: ok
type: ifconfig -a
press: enter / return

Now there should be an interface along the lines of wlan0, wlan1 wlan2, etc... It should not be eth* or lo, remember the interface name and continue with the following.

STEP 2
menu --> run
type: wicd-client -n
press: ok
press: preferences
Wireless interface = wlan* ( interface found in step 1 )
press: ok
press: refresh

That is it, your wireless interface should now show up in wicd.
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dark-D
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
#2
another way to find out your wireless card info is to use inxi in a terminal:

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inxi -Nxi
the output should be something like this:

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Network:   Card-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 ver: 3.117 bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection driver: iwl3945 ver: in-tree:s bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A IF: wlan0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A 
           IF: ppp0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: N/A
in mine i used the z option to filter out my ip and mac.
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masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#3
That's a good suggestion, dark-D!

I get thIs when I run the command:

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inxi -Nxiz

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Network:   Card-1: Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection driver: e100 ver: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 04:08.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
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oldhoghead
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#4
anti,

I tried the steps you listed, but shouldn't the ifconfig -a be iwconfig, still did not work for me, then I hit the button network and clicked on find hidden networks, then it requested my essid, and knowing my essid I put it in and bada-bing it came up, then typed in the pw and then I was online!! __{{emoticon}}__

cheers,
ohh