Wicd needs to access your computer's network cards

[f0olyc0oly]

I'm replacing the network manager on Ubuntu 13.04 LXDE with WICD due to disconnecting issue on the Wireless.

After installing WICD and rebooting, this message keeps popping up.

"Wicd needs to access your computer's network cards"

Any advice?

[varunendra]

Have you seen this ? If your's is a different card, please show us which one it is -

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

EDIT:
Just read this bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...d/+bug/1132529
Maybe try the solution suggested in comment #22 first.

[f0olyc0oly]

Have you seen this ? If your's is a different card, please show us which one it is -

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

This is the result:

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 3e)

I did the below steps as well

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf

options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1

EDIT:
Just read this bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...d/+bug/1132529
Maybe try the solution suggested in comment #22 first.[/QUOTE]


I tried comment #22, wow it worked finally! Thanks very much for your help!

bmarsh, your patch provided in comment #19 fixed it for me. I did this:

    rm /etc/resolv.conf
    ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf
    rm /var/lib/wicd/resolv.conf.orig
    ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /var/lib/wicd/resolv.conf.orig

then, launching wicd with "sudo service wicd start" worked, and wicd-gtk appears to be functioning normally. I'm not experiencing anything with wpa2 malfunctioning.

[varunendra]

Cheers !

..And I learnt something new about wicd (never tried wicd myself anyway)

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