So I gave wicd a try and it definitely didn't fix the problem. If anything, I had more trouble getting wicd working than network-manager. Network-manager's behavior is very consistent - it doesn't work when it automatically tries to connect to the network, it does when I choose "Connect to other wirless network..." and manually enter the ESSID and WPA password. When I selected the network in wicd, it would say "Obtaining IP address" for a while and then fail. It never asked for a password or network key, though it did recognize it as a WPA network. I tried changing the WPASupplicant driver in the preferences to a few different choices and that had no effect. There was no real option to manually configure the connection, so I didn't try that. Connecting to unsecured wireless networks did eventually work, but in general wicd was less responsive than network-manager. I even had to coax it to connect with a wired connection (which I used to reinstall network-manager).
-- [Gutsy] Unable to connect to Access Point if encryption method (WEP/WAP/WAP2) of the AP is changed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140422 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
