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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: ali on May 22, 2011, 01:24:21 PM

Title: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 22, 2011, 01:24:21 PM

i noticed my wicd won't automatically reconnect after a connection drop
am i missing something?

Title: Re: wicd problems
Post by: bmarkus on May 22, 2011, 01:34:48 PM

Quote from: ali on May 22, 2011, 01:24:21 PM

i noticed my wicd won't automatically reconnect after a connection drop
am i missing something?

Yes, proper setting::

(http://wicd.sourceforge.net/preferences.png)

Title: Re: wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 22, 2011, 02:07:58 PM

my wicd doesn't look like that
but i do have my automatically connect on connection loss checked

Title: Re: wicd problems
Post by: hiro on May 22, 2011, 05:54:58 PM

Use my roam.tcz package with wpa_supplicant and be the first to give me feedback.
I remember having had your problem as well.

Title: Re: wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 22, 2011, 11:06:44 PM

if my problem persists i will try roam

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 23, 2011, 07:18:50 AM

i also noticed that it won't connect to any other wireless network, just the one that i initially connected to, maybe it's related

@hiro
i downloaded wpa_gui and roam but wpa_gui doesn't work for me

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: hiro on May 23, 2011, 05:33:03 PM

What exactly doesn't work? Does it lack a feature or did you find a bug?
Maybe after all I'll now find our why nobody is using wpa_gui :)

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 24, 2011, 01:15:28 AM

(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/373/201105240809301366x768s.png) (http://i.imgur.com/L7gTV.png)

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: curaga on May 24, 2011, 03:23:26 AM

It doesn't list anything? Have you edited the wpa config as mentioned in the _gui info file?

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 24, 2011, 04:36:02 AM

the gui file links to a dead link

      http://tinycorelinux.com/wiki/Setting+up+Wifi
should be

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:setting_up_wifi

anyway, after doing everything it said there roam just said something along the lines "using wlan0" and that was it
no internet or anything

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: hiro on May 24, 2011, 01:28:41 PM

You have to change wlan0 to eth1 (assuming this is your wireless interface).

I created the roam extension so that people don't have to go through the hassle of creating the wpa_supplicant.conf and to have all the configuration in one place.
I want it to include all relevant information in the .info file so you don't need to browse the web or anything in order to set it up. wpa_supplicant is loaded automatically as dependencies.

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 25, 2011, 01:36:33 AM

i managed to get it running
i tried to configure wpa_supplicant before starting roam but now that i started roam before wpa it worked
the good news is that i DID manage to connect to another wireless access point other than my own (which wicd just refuses to do)
the bad news is that it is much slower than wicd for some reason
wicd takes 2 seconds at most to load a guestbook or this forum, roam takes about ... let me restart roam and check, brb

ok i'm back, it seams roam loads in the same 2 seconds as wicd, that's odd, the first time it was much slower
let me reboot and check again

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 25, 2011, 01:46:42 AM

i think my slow internet in the first try was probably due to the fact that i was still connected to my neighbours access point (even tho i connected back to mine afterwards...) anyway it seams to be working just fine no complaints so far, i wonder if wired internet will work, or my schools wireless access points

did i mention wicd wouldn't even want to connect to a foreign wired network? anything that wasn't mine it just completely rejected, as if it were a girl, i'm pretty sure there's something in wicd configuration that i forgot to do but anyway, roam so far works like a charm

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: bmarkus on May 25, 2011, 02:06:28 AM

Just one notice. This topic is not about WICD problem (and never was) as its subject indicates :(

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 25, 2011, 03:09:24 AM

well, wicd won't automatically reconnect, nor will it connect to another network, i do believe that is a wicd problem (at least in my case)

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: bmarkus on May 25, 2011, 03:32:54 AM

Quote from: ali on May 25, 2011, 03:09:24 AM

well, wicd won't automatically reconnect, nor will it connect to another network, i do believe that is a wicd problem (at least in my case)

Reconnect was already discussed. You did not enable it. Nothing wrong with WICD. Your title is misleading.

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: ali on May 25, 2011, 03:35:26 AM

i told you that enable reconnect was already checked
discussed? yes, it was discussed
solved? nope, it wasn't solved

Title: Re: more wicd problems
Post by: hiro on May 25, 2011, 05:47:11 AM

wicd does some strange magic with wpa_supplicant config files every time you connect to a different network. I'm not sure it's related; it is way too complex for me to debug and sometimes not even reproducable (if it works on one pc it does not on the other one, although I'm using the same usb drive and same NIC names).

Of course hijacking every wicd thread is not nice, but I don't recall wicd being nice to me either :P