[ubuntu] ugraded wicd - no internet

[currywuss]

One of the upgrades to be installed this morning was wicd. During the installation, I received three error messages saying something like 'wicd has been altered by you so say x (three bits of script) - do you want to keep these or install the new version?' I chose keep for all three (thinking that there must have been a reason that I'd changed wicd, even though I didn't actually know what these scripts were doing ) The internet was working fine, but after switching my laptop back on at a later point this was no longer the case.

I can't open wicd even though the icon is there in the menu. I've tried re-installing it from /var/cache/apt/archives but that failed. I have no internet access on the laptop in question (I'm using a different machine to write this post) so can't download network manager. I'm rather stuck Any help would be great.

[ww711]

I did the same thing of upgrading the wicd through the package manager. Now my wireless does not work now.

It detects several wireless connections including my own. I have tried configuring the using relevant encryption and passwords that I have. Still no success.

Serves me right for upgrading!?!?

Maybe II-8.10 will handle the wireless in a better way...

[ww711]

I decided to uninstall wicd and rebooted, tried selecting the relevant encryption and my wireless network password through using the built in network manager in Ubuntu, it has now detected the wireless network and authenticated, success!

[currywuss]

Thanks guys. I've managed to get a wired connection on the relevant machine & tried to completely uninstall Wicd. Doesn't seem to work... Any ideas?

julia@julia-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove wicd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libglib1.2ldbl libgtk1.2 libdns32 libxul0d galeon-common libmozjs0d libgtk1.2-common libxul-common linux-headers-2.6.24-16-generic linux-headers-2.6.24-16 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: wicd 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 1774kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 186616 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wicd ... Stopping wicd daemon... invoke-rc.d: initscript wicd, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing wicd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Stopping any running daemons... Starting wicd daemon... Errors were encountered while processing: wicd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) julia@julia-laptop:~$

[STPitcher]

Ah... I guess I have to assume that WiCd is simply broke! I also allowed it to upgrade this morning, and then immediately lost wireless contact. Now I don't seem to be able to get it back, no matter what I try. I'm stuck with wired.. which is not convenient. WiCd does handle wired ok...

I'm using WPA. On my router, its labeled WPA-PSK. I assume this refers to the Pre Shared Key... THis was working fine until this update.

I hope a new fix appears soon.

- stp

[itsjareds]

Does anyone need me to give them the old version? I have it saved.

Also, try uninstalling then deleting the /opt/wicd folder, then reinstall. Do the same if you uninstall then install with my version.

Edit: Here you go - wicd_1.4.2-1-all.deb