Solved: Debian installs network-manager by default and I installed wicd. The two interfere with each other. But its a mystery why it worked until the last upgrade as before that both programs were installed and worked OK.
Richard On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Nick Schmalenberger <n...@schmalenberger.us > wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 06:53:20PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote: > > This is happening on two different laptops. One is using a usb wifi fob > > with realtek chip set. My new laptop > > uses intel wifi. I use wicd to select and bring up a connection. The > first > > try always takes a very long time > > and fails with bad password. If I then immediately click connect again, > it > > connects in 1 or 2 seconds and remains > > connected for a variable length of time. At starbucks (open AP) it > connects > > right away but disconnects > > 4 to 6 seconds later. I haven't tried all permutations of machine and AP > > but a recent debian seems to be the > > main common point. Problem started on the old machine after upgrading to > > sid. And now the new machine is > > installed with jessie. (which was sid when the old machine was upgraded) > > Its on my new machine I noticed the log files > > growing and saw entries for wpa_supplicant every few seconds (syslog and > > daemon.log) > > Richard > > > Despite all the seeming bloatedness of NetworkManager, I've had > quite good luck with it on my current Debian laptop. It > especially helped once I found nmtui, because I don't have any > window manager that works decently with the NetworkManager gui > and I think that was my main source of frustration with it > before. > > The only other possible problem I can see with it, is if I want > to manually change my ip on a interface I just added with vlan > tagging or something, NetworkManager may interfere, but I usually > only have to do that at work, where I have a Mac whose GUI > works decently enough even for vlan tagging. > -Nick > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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