Connecting to wireless through wicd (BCM43xx drivers already installed)

[SlingerXL]

So I have an HP Pavilion tx 1000 with wireless card: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02). THE My problem is that even though I can see my wireless networks (I'm trying to connect to 'girlfess'), I can't figure out how to connect to the wireless network. Wicd can't see any networks. Why is this and how do I connect?

Here's my lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 02
serial: 00:1a:73:a6:9d:b4
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100. ip=192.168.168.40 latency=0 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Here's my $sudo iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:3F:6A:DD:99
ESSID:"houseoflove"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality:35/100 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Preauthentication Supported
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 02 - Address: 02:E0:62:4D:5F:38
ESSID:"ANY"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:28/100 Signal level:-78 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : none
Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x
Cell 03 - Address: 00:1B:63:2D:20:A9
ESSID:"girlfess"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:96/100 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 04 - Address: 00:1C:10:14:AB:84
ESSID:"Citgo-3"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:15/100 Signal level:-86 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Cell 05 - Address: 00:1E:2A:53:F6:52
ESSID:"511nfess"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:12/100 Signal level:-88 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
Cell 06 - Address: 00:14:6C:F8:C2:BE
ESSID:"adamsinternet"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality:4/100 Signal level:-93 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

[dmizer]

you'll probably have to disable NetworkManager before you can use wicd. here's how: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager?#head-d279c8fbfc4d1711bb8e3a03a4b71c810878b0eb

[Tomatz]

Also you could try manually entering your SSID and password.

[SlingerXL]

Also you could try manually entering your SSID and password.

How?

[Tomatz]

How?

Through the network manager (l-click manual setup ). The ssid is the broadcasted name of your router. You can view the ssid in your router config.

;)

[SlingerXL]

Through the network manager (l-click manual setup ). The ssid is the broadcasted name of your router. You can view the ssid in your router config.

;)
Well I know the ssid is girlfess and the password is 519. Is there a way to connect through the terminal or something? I go to System/Administration/Network but when I hit properties on wireless netowrk and enter the name and password (WPA Personal), it won't let me hit OK until I enter some IP address and gateway something or other, but I don't know what to enter there.

Also, I don't have network manager. I have wicd, so I can't manually connect through it.

[Tomatz]

Well I know the ssid is girlfess and the password is 519. Is there a way to connect through the terminal or something? I go to System/Administration/Network but when I hit properties on wireless netowrk and enter the name and password (WPA Personal), it won't let me hit OK until I enter some IP address and gateway something or other, but I don't know what to enter there.

Also, I don't have network manager. I have wicd, so I can't manually connect through it.

Oh i see.

A quick google brought this up:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188

You should be able to set up your network manually with the help of that thread as obviously you can see the network but wicd seems to be working incorrectly.

Why you using wi cd anyway the network manager should work fine with that card?

Any probs post back ;)

[cenwesi]

He seems to have the bcm43xx card... i have all sort of issue trying to get this card to connect to a WPA. Wep works fine but ofcourse it is not that secure.

Anyway will recommend you give the "compact-wireless" http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download a try. Using this i was able to connect to my WPA and others. Solved ALOT of the wireless problem i had. I also add to add this to my startup script in
/etc/init.d//wirelessfix.sh
#!/bin/bash
modprobe -r ssb
modprobe -r b43
sleep 5
modprobe b43
modprobe ssb

100% workes.. I even updated my Kernel this afternoon to 2.6.25 and now my hp2133 headphone sensing works.