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From: Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd manager on xfce4 not detecting wireless interfaces
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:32:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16D3BC4F-4817-4A54-831E-F5C1E9C7463F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090201004124.4740f930@amparo>



On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed wicd and configured as
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/moinmoin/Wicd on Fedora says.
>
> *Just starting its daemon
>
> But when I open it I only see my wired conection.
> My wireless interface is avaliable via ifconfig:
> # iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> wmaster0  no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan1     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not- 
> Associated
>          Tx-Power=0 dBm
>          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> # ifconfig wlan1
> wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:3B:2A:6D:0F
>          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
>
> But it does not appear in wicd client.
> I'd like to use WEP keys, and I see no refernce to that option in
> prefernces tab... only WPA.
>
>
> Anyone with experience on wicd could give me some help, plesae?
>
> TIA,
> Arnau
>
Just click the tab next to each BSSID, and check "enable encryption".  
Then, click the tab on what type of encryption, select WEP(hex), as  
ASCII support is a bit limited. Enter in the relevent information and  
join the network. 



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-31 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-01  0:41 [gentoo-user] wicd manager on xfce4 not detecting wireless interfaces Arnau Bria
2009-01-31 17:32 ` Saphirus Sage [this message]
2009-02-01  1:52   ` Arnau Bria
2009-01-31 18:01     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-31 19:35       ` Arnau Bria
2009-01-31 19:33         ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-31 20:56           ` Arnau Bria
2009-01-31 20:18         ` Arnau Bria
2009-02-01  2:21       ` Arnau Bria

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