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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:20 am    Post subject: iw can find wireless network, but wicd can't Reply with quote

Dear Friend:

I installed wicd for wireless connection. But it can't find and AP here. Very strange, iw command can scan all the network. Why?

Need your help, Thanlks in advance.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure you specify the correct wifi device in wicd's configuration. With a new installation on my laptop, it defaults to just nothing instead of wlan0, and when it does that it can't find any networks.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks! you're right. I viewed the log file. wicd just try to find wlan0. but mine is wlan3. so I try to edit config file in /etc/wicd.but nothing regarding network inteface.
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