[Tfug] wireless connecting

[Paul Scott]

Paul Scott wrote:
> 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.

(Using Debian sid)

What might the typo look like?  I don't see any obvious ones.

Does the passkey get regenerated when the passwork is changed?

Thanks,

Paul