Wicd fails to get IP from wifi router - Unable to connect to Wifi

[mreidiv]

KERPAP

Take you wifi card out of monitor mode then reconnect

[VulpiArgenti]

There does seem to be a genuine problem with wicd and WEP, with postings on various forums. This bug post is similar to my issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/513873. These workarounds are all viable for me (BT5R1 gnome HD install):

1. Use static IP.
2. Use network-manager. (Can be installed at same time as wicd, so you can continue to use wicd for Open and WPA).
3. Connect manually

ifconfig wlanx down
iwconfig wlanx essid  ''xxxx'' key xxxxxxxx channel x
ifconfig wlanx up
dhclient wlanx

[denik]

From terminal:

dpkg-reconfigure wicd
update-rc.d wicd defaults

reboot

apt-get upgrade

I didn't try these steps yet. But, if this is the solution, it would not work with a live cd, right? I mean because you'd need to restart and you'd leave all your changes. So, I'd need to install BT on a hard disk or to wait a release with a newer version of wicd...

[dcabib]

Hello All,

Couldn't it be a Mac Address filterring in the WIFI moden? I mean, we can connect, it validates our password but we cannot get a IP address due to Mac Address filtering....

How does it sound to you??

Regards

[stepking2]

Probably a bit late, but I posted a thread earlier about this problem. I have WEP encyption on my home network, and it won't obtain IP. When setting a static IP it connected, but I had no internet connection, I couldn't load websites.
And one guy told me, that this was a bug with BT5R2, and to fix that I had to downgrade to R1. I haven't tried downgrading, since I am not that often in BT, and I don't think it as a huge problem.

[robotchickenparm]

heyyy... for me the changing WEP Passrhraze to WEP Key worked like a charm. Thanks so much!!!

[maverik35]

There does seem to be a genuine problem with wicd and WEP, with postings on various forums. This bug post is similar to my issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/513873. These workarounds are all viable for me (BT5R1 gnome HD install):

1. Use static IP.
2. Use network-manager. (Can be installed at same time as wicd, so you can continue to use wicd for Open and WPA).
3. Connect manually

ifconfig wlanx down
iwconfig wlanx essid  ''xxxx'' key xxxxxxxx channel x
ifconfig wlanx up
dhclient wlanx

The whole line iwconfig wlanx essid ''xxxx'' key xxxxxxxx channel x never worked for me, never was able to connect. I had to do ti one by one:
iwconfig wlanx mode managed
iwconfig wlanx essid xxxxxx
iwconfig wlanx channel x
iwconfig wlanx key xxxxxxxxx or use key -s xxxxxx (if ascii key)
ifconfig wlanx up

Then dhclient wlanx, as you stated.

If you install Network-Manager, the Wicd will be removed automatically and viceversa. As far as I know and read, they cannot work together. Unless you use update-alternatives, but never try it with these 2. I use it with java and open-jdk, etc and you can use either one, but not at the same time.

Luck.

[Psychopath]

i had the same problem about a week ago.
open wicd. select your connection and click on "properties"
enable the "use static ip and use static domain" function.
set your ip to 192.168.1.1
your netmask to: 255.255.255.0
your gateway to : 192.163.1.1
your dns domain to: 192.163.1.1
your search domain to: 192.163.1.1
and try again.
good luck

[monroenathan]

I am having this issue too.

Nothing has worked so far.

[destro23]

Did you try all lowercase letters? let me know if that works