[Tfug] wireless connecting

[Paul Scott]

christopher floess wrote:
> 
>> Can someone help me get connected to the places I can no longer 
>> connect?  I have researched several areas on this according the 
>> various error messages I have seen from the interfaces and in the 
>> logs.  One is:
>>
> I assume you're using a Debian based distro? Are you working with wicd 
> or networkmanager now? If using wicd, according to this site 
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php, your /etc/network/interfaces 
> file should only contain
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback

Correct.

> I've never configured wicd on Debian based systems, but if I remember 
> correctly, there are sections in the .../.../interfaces file for each 
> network interface. These are noticeably absent here, which seems 
> consistent with the Arch linux wicd wiki 
> (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd), where these interfaces are 
> also disabled. I guess wicd expects to interact with the network 
> interfaces differently.
> 
> Yeah, you could start with that, and if you still have problems, tail 
> the wicd logs. I've noticed one bug where connecting to a wired network 
> can bonk my whole wicd setup. Since I'm lazy about finding a real 
> solution, but also because I rarely connect to wired networks anymore, I 
> always have to watch the logs after I've connected to a wired network, 
> and see where wicd puts a typo in one of it config files. Manually 
> editing the typo and restarting wicd gets me back to the interwebs.

I'm using wicd at the moment.  I'll check for the above.  At home I use 
wired also so I can get email done until I solve this and use this to 
solve my away from home problems.

I'll check the above and get back later.

Thanks,

Paul