[Tfug] wicd can't make WEP connection via its configuration

[christopher floess]

which thinkpad do you have? I have a t61 and have no problems. I'm using 
arch linux though. it's a bit less end-user oriented, but I've had no 
real problems since using it.

-- chris

On 06/03/2010 04:23 PM, John Karns wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:46 AM, John Hubbard<ender8282 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I want to say that I had similar problems with an old version of kubuntu (7.10 I think). I also had to write a simple script using iwconfig to get my network setup. Eventually I upgraded to a newer version and things worked much better. So far I have been pretty happy with kubuntu 10.04. You might think about booting to a live cd and seeing if things work there.
>>      
> I did try 9.10, but they had removed the thinkpad support that had
> been present in 6&  7.  So I chose an older version, also partly to
> get KDE 3.x back, although I'm been using XFCE anyway.  With 9.10, I
> had kind of expected that things would "just work" as they had when I
> first installed Ubuntu on the machine some three years ago.  Although
> I did have to make a few adjustments e.g., to get hibernation working,
> I was very happy with it overall, and didn't have to patch the kernel
> for thinkpad support ( T42 volume button support + hibernation), the
> way it seems necessary to do with some of the more current versions.
>
> I have tried installing the same kernel + modules that I was using
> with 7.10, but can't get hibernation working as I had it before.
>
>