>> >> I have 2 different USB wireless network adapters and an internal >> >> PCIe adapter and none will connect to a Jazztel router I need to >> >> connect to on the road. I've tried several different kernels. >> >> I've tried restarting the router and I've verified that the WEP >> >> password is correct by logging into the router itself (good ol' >> >> admin/admin) but wicd always gives me the "bad password" message. >> >> dmesg isn't very informative. All I get is from the internal >> >> adapter (with debugging enabled for the driver) after each failure >> >> is: >> >> >> >> L1 Disabled: Enabling L0S >> >> Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0 >> >> wlan0: link is not ready >> >> >> >> Does anyone know how to figure this out? >> > >> > I would try setting a static IP on the client in wicd... maybe >> > something in the DHCP session between the router and client is >> > wonky. >> >> I thought the same thing and tried that but it didn't end up working. >> The good news is I got it working by doing this in /etc/conf.d/net: >> >> modules="!wpa_supplicant" >> ssid_wlan0="SSID" >> key_SSID="s:PASSWORD enc open" >> >> I couldn't get wpa_supplicant working either but maybe I didn't take >> enough time with the config. I guess this was a wicd bug? I love it >> when working on something all day long actually pays off. > > When working with wicd, rule 1 is delete all /etc/conf.d/net > and /etc/init.d/net* > > They just interfere with wicd and make your life miserable (as you > found out)
I actually had no /etc/init.d/net.* files except net.lo and /etc/conf.d/net was empty. I finally gave up on wicd and set up the openrc stuff when I got my third network interface working with the same result. - Grant
