Joel Roth wrote at 2014-08-06 11:26 -0500: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 04:54:42PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > In some airports, and today at a university > > I've failed to join "unsecured" networks. > > > > I've been using wicd-gtk. > > > > The failure takes the form of a time-out during the get IP > > address stage. > > Today I found, that if I went back to wpa_gui, I could > associate with the access point and then use dhclient to get > an IP address. I'm mystified that wicd doesn't get that > right, and a little disappointed that it is not a silver > bullet for my wifi connection.
I have had the same problem with wicd. It seems like it does not check for a successful association before running dhclient. My workaround has been to manually run 'iw wlan0 connect -w ESSID' after the point at which wicd runs dhclient. This problem may have been fixed, because it no longer seems to be an issue; I have (jessie) wicd 1.7.2.4-4.1 and linux-image-3.14-2-amd64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140807185824.GB6124@swansys