After update on Oct 14 2008 wicd stopped working entirely
My laptop's wireless connection has been working reasonably well for some time now after I got a fix for it after initial installation using wicd. It was working last night (Oct 14 2008) when I downloaded routine updates for my Ubuntu. It said I needed to reboot, and not long thereafter I shut down for the night.
Tonight when I booted up, the wicd is completely unable to locate any wireless networks whatsoever.
I mention the update because that's the only thing that happened recently that might have had any sort of effect (we've all had experiences where an update makes an existing program stop functioning properly). My wife's laptop (running a different wireless chipset with a different work-around to make it function) continues to work and detect the half-dozen networks in the area. I haven't activated or deactivated any hardware physically. So it must be something with my wicd, or a software interface of some sort with my modem, is all I can think of. And I'm no sort of programmer whatsoever.
It's Wicd version 1.5.3 and I'm happy to provide any other information that might be of use, or run any diagnostics, or copy/paste any system information from the terminal.
It's just frustrating, as you can imagine: yesterday, working just fine, today, completely and totally inert and useless. Thank God I've got a network cable handy...
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