BT4 R2 wicd wireless connection problems

[ceefus]

I have a strange problem (aside from ad-hoc not working).

When I get into X I start up wicd if I need to connect to a wireless network and it will connect just fine the first time; then at some random point I will be disconnected. After I'm disconnected if I try to reconnect to the AP it will say "Bad password" though I hadn't changed any settings.

From there; I can fix it one of two ways. I can either go into the wicd preferences page and change the wireless adapter to something random, refresh wicd then change it back; or I can run ifconfig wlanX down then try again. The second method does not work all of the time.

This only started happening when I upgraded from R1 to R2. Initially I thought I may have had some corrupt packages from the upgrade so I did a full reinstall but I'm having the same problem.

I also confirmed that it is not the wireless card. I have tried this with 3 different wireless cards and I have the same problem; and the problem is resolved the same on each device..?

Any suggestions?

[Archangel-Amael]

Try connecting using the command line. Also there are plenty of guides both here and on the internet in general to help.
See the "related links" at the bottom of this page. Try also posting output from the commands you use if it does not work.
This will help others to help you.

[ceefus]

I will do the CLI stuff tomorrow. Any helpful hints as to which error log to watch if I'm hunting?

[laptopz]

/var/log/wicd/wicd.log
dmesg