two gentoo boxes can no longer connect to wireless

numberlessusername · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2011 Posts: 20

neither went through any updates; they just suddenly broke.

card info from lspci -k:
Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. Device 2003
Kernel Driver in use: ath9k

the other computer has a different atheros card but also uses ath9k

using wicd-curses to try to connect to both my home network and my cell phone's mobile hotspot. both are WPA2

wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-r5 and wicd-1.7.2.4-r2 are installed.

If I can provide any additional information, let me know.

Thanks in advance!

numberlessusername · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2011 Posts: 20

connecting to the unsecured network at my high school works as well as it used to, leading me to believe it's an issue with wpa_supplicant. Any tips?

TomWij · Retired Dev Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Posts: 1553

Please post debugging output from dmesg, ifconfig, iwconfig, iw, wpa_supplicant such we have more troubleshooting information; thank you in advance.

numberlessusername · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2011 Posts: 20

dmesg snippet, lines 1004 - 1025 or so of this paste: http://bpaste.net/show/122413/

666threesixes666 · Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:17 am Post subject:

i ran wicd for like 3 weeks, and then it started acting buggy and updating it fixed the problem i was having. & did that like 2-3 times... i eventually switch to networkmanager.

TomWij · Retired Dev Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Posts: 1553

It appears you have multiple daemons trying to manage the network running (probably network scripts and wicd), that's what local reason 3 usually indicates.