topic title: WICD Problem
Posts: 62
mizpa
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
#1
I was recently out of town looking for work. I've never had a problem with using WICD in antiX before in public libraries, but this time I did. When I tried to use the antiXcc, it kept asking for the wired-default network, and said that there ere no wireless networks found. I know that wireless was avavilable, because there were several other patrons using their laptops wirelessly. I'm using atiX 8.5, recently upgraded - do I need to upgrade to/install a newer version of antiX?
Any idea of what the problem could be? I've tried to install WICD since returning home, but apt-get says I already have the most recent version installed __{{emoticon}}__ __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 279
afab4
Joined: 17 Oct 2009
#2
Have you tried ceni?
What kind of wireless card do you have?
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
t kept asking for the wired-default network, and said that there ere no wireless networks found. I know that wireless was avavilable, because there were several other patrons using their laptops wirelessly.
If I had been you. I would would have run as root in terminal.

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ifconfig -a

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harry@Biker:~$ sux
Password: 
root@Biker:/home/harry# ifconfig -a
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4d:77:2c:76  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2800 

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 B)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0b:a2:1c:eb:8f  
          inet addr:192.168.2.14  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20b:a2ff:fe1c:eb8f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:7892267 (7.5 MiB)  TX bytes:1921612 (1.8 MiB)

root@Biker:/home/harry# iwlist wlan0 event
wlan0     Wireless Events supported :
          0x8B04 : Set Frequency/Channel (kernel generated)
          0x8B06 : Set Mode (kernel generated)
          0x8B15 : New Access Point/Cell address - roaming
          0x8B19 : Scan request completed
          0x8B1A : Set ESSID (kernel generated)
          0x8B2A : Set Encoding (kernel generated)

wlan0     Scanning capabilities :
        - ESSID
Then made sure wlan0 was in wicd wireless preferences. Then hit the refresh button in wicd. Then when library connection shows. Connect to Library.
Posts: 62
mizpa
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
#4
afab4 wrote:Have you tried ceni?
What kind of wireless card do you have?
I'm not familiar with using ceni.
I have a Broadcom wireless card.
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#5
Ceni is dead simple, and works much better IMHO than wicd, it seems to me that each new iteration of wicd presents some problems. In the new antiX test2, wicd would not work noway nohow, that is until I used ceni, then miraculously wicd now would show my wireless. For instructions on ceni, go here:


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cheers,
ohh