On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 13:50 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > This happened in the past with both Toshiba and Sony notebooks, and today > with the Dell Latitude E4510 laptop: my wireless network sniffer shows a > strong signal (3-4 of 4 lights on) yet wicd-client cannot find a wireless > network for connection. This was at Providence Med. Center in NE Portland. > > What might cause wicd to not find a network when the signal strength is > strong?
IIRC, there are a number of bugs related to wicd and hidden networks, esp related to encryption. The following google seems to confirm: wicd "hidden network" Other question -- I know I see hidden networks with an empty SSID when I run the following command in RHEL 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 iwlist wlan0 scan If that command reveals hidden networks, you probably can set up a connection manually with some variation of iwconfig. (I know something like the following works on a WEP network:) Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
