On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Arnau Bria <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > every time I try to start my wireless with wicd, I have to set the > WEP encripton key by hand (su - ; iwconfig ....) then wicd is able to > connect to the AP. > > I have checked all network params, but I see no error in conf... > > Use encyptrion > WEP (Passphrase) > and the password. > > I only see this error on dmesg: > > wlan1: associate with AP 00:1a:2b:6d:90:a4 > wlan1: mismatch in privacy configuration and mixed-cell disabled - abort > association > wlan1: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate > wlan1: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate > > > anyone has faced this error before? Cause i see many references in > google but most refer to a kernel conf problem... but if I can set the > key by hand, why wicd can't? > Maybe do I need to add my user to a special group? > $ id arnau > uid=1000(arnau) gid=1000(arnau) > grupos=1000(arnau),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom) > > > TIA, > Arnau
It's probably a completely different issue, but I've had a lot of trouble when I've used wicd and network manager both where they would't accept my passphrase in ascii, but took it fine converted to hex... though wicd 1.5.9 on my laptop here hasn't given me that problem. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
