Comments on: Wicd - Wired and Wireless Network manager for Ubuntu

By: Floid

Floid — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:15:02 +0000

As always, linux assumes you are already connected to the internet. We wouldn’t be searching out wicd if networkmanager worked flawlessly in all wifi drivers or secure connections like wpa. What would be helpful is telling us where to download a complete (ALL INCLUDED DEPENDENCIES NEEDEDED/REQUIRED), single wicd-*-all.deb file compatible with our kernel, so we can save it to a usb, and take it back to the NON-connected computer to make linux work, allowing us to get on with our lives.

I have a question for all past Windows users: Did you ever say to yourself, “Self, even though you have a great internet connection right now, wouldn’t it be awesome to download another program that crashes the current working internet connection to see if the new one works too?” Didn’t think so. Hmmm.

By: abds

abds — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:12:58 +0000

I have problem with network manger applet 0.8
how I install this program

By: Trinity

Trinity — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:01:44 +0000

Bug with network manager in ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2. tried many solutions and couldnt make it work. the solution found is very basic:) remove NM download and install WiCd and problem sorted. everything is working perfect.

By: Visible Spirit

Visible Spirit — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:09:13 +0000

Hi,

Just a note to say “wicd” didn’t work at all after installing it on Intrepid-(v8.10). I had absolutely no Internet access; wired or wireless. It asked for my password each and every boot-up which was extremely annoying as well. I removed it via a third party filter I setup in synaptic and reinstalled NM. I now have my wired connection re-established and writing this via my laptop-(IBM ThinkPad T-30).

Still trying to get a “TRENDnet TEW-421PC wireless PCMCIA 32-bit type 2 CardBus” to light up and connect. No Linux driver support I’m aware of, and ndisWrapper doesn’t do the trick either. To-date, the only OS/distro to light it up and connect has been wattOS v1.0-beta3; out-of-the-box I might add! wattOS is based on Ubuntu v9.10, which I’m dwnldg currently to see if that works for this wireless card. It’s frustrating to be tied to a hardwire considering this is a laptop.

Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,
Visible Spirit

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:08:34 +0000

wicd was working fine until I upgraded to Jaunty and now it won’t connect to anything. Any ideas?

By: Live

Live — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:26:05 +0000

Yea, device DOESN’T work with HIDDEN SSID! Mine is HP dv2000 laptop with Belkin router and WPA2

By: Fintan

Fintan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:47:11 +0000

Hello and thank you for your god reading,
I have a toshiba M800 running kubuntu JJ 64 bit.
I have been screwing ariund for a while and would like to know how to install wicd without any internet connection.
I have the latest .deb but using:
~$ sudo dpkg -i wicd_1.5.9-2_all.deb
gives a python depenacy error.
Any Ideas?
That would greatly appreciated.

By: modmadmike

modmadmike — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:58:51 +0000

VA:
Weird - had the same problem with my friends computer (which is a Desktop) only it would connect till I was in the farthest room of the house (probably because I have a very powerful router and a high-gain card in the pc). Oh and this was with nm because I have had better experiences with it than wicd.

By: VA

VA — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:13:45 +0000

I replaces nm with wicd. I have dual boot Vista/Ubuntu on my Lenovo Y410 laptop. When I boot , I have to take my laptop close to the router for wicd to connect. The connection is displayed most times (not always) but will not connect. This is the same case if the computer goes to sleep also. On the Vista boot, I never has a problem ion connecting to the same wireless connection. Any idea what is going on or resoltuion? Thanks for your help in advance. I am on Ubuntu 9.04 and is a newbie to Ubuntu and loving it.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:52:20 +0000

I’m new to Linux, Ubuntu and all, using 9.04. Tried wicd after not being able to use WPA/PSK with a Netgear WG311 card but it only works if the SSID is broadcast and I prefer to keep it hidden. TootToot says it used to work on earlier releases, is it worth going back to an older version.

By: TootToot

TootToot — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:27:49 +0000

Just upgraded to Jaunty and this thing now sucks ass with Hidden Networks which is weird because it worked fine before. Back to nm. Anybody any ideas?

By: biswarup

biswarup — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:40:10 +0000

I also lost a couple of days of my life(and few kilos I think) struggling with nm. I am using ubuntu as the only OS in my machine for more than three years and the experience has been fantastic, I just use my machine, without spending any time for maintaining it.The nm problem caused me to want to reinstall windows. I almost gave up and thought the linksys wmp54g adaptor won’t work with wpa under ubuntu.
As a last chance I installed wicd(it’s not even in the repos) and within a couple of minutes everything was up and running perfectly!

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:00:54 +0000

Until the Ubuntu guys catch on and make Wicd the default manager it needs to be added to every noob startup guide for Ubuntu. This is absolutely essential for anybody who doesn’t want to waste hours/days on the currently buggy Network Mangler. You only have to take a quick look around to see that just about everybody eventually dumps nm for Wicd.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2591/

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:35:46 +0000

I’ve been playing with the Gnome network manager for days, read dozens of variations offered by well meaning people on reconfiguring the configuration files manualy to no avail. I’ve had a couple of close calls with regards to getting the thing to work with a static IP going down these routes, but as soon as I hard reboot the PC, all the config changes are fo nought! 5 mins iof getting Wicd up and running and my networking woes are a thing of the past. Not a clean install, I have to say; a few error messages popped up along the way, but now it’s in it works perfectly. Many thanks.

By: Tony Morgan

Tony Morgan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:45 +0000

Great job. I’ve had a bunch of problems assigning a static IP on my wireless with my eee 1000 in ubuntu. About 30 seconds after wicd install and I was done alreay. Great job once again.

By: statmonkey

statmonkey — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:50:23 +0000

Thanks for this. After many headaches from network manager I can put it where it belongs. In the .trash folder.

By: Bigwhiskie

Bigwhiskie — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:54:21 +0000

I really think program is better than network manager. The only issue I have had is after I installed the program my update manager now hangs up and will not process. I can still update via the command-line, but this still gives a question to what I uninstalled. Has anyone had the same issue?

Bigwhiskie

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:07:23 +0000

Love Wicd, works great, the interface gives much better control than the flaky nm-appplet.

Kind regards

By: Nay

Nay — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:27:51 +0000

I have been having issues with my wireless card not connecting every time I reboot the computer.

After installing wicd no more issue. This should be in the main repository.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:52:51 +0000

I have followed the directions to install this program and I get the following message. Is this the normal message? I am afraid removed kubuntu-desktop will take a lot of other programs with it.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
network-manager-gnome: Depends: network-manager (>= 0.6.5) but it is not installable
network-manager-kde: Depends: network-manager (>= 0.6.2) but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies…
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
knetworkmanager
kubuntu-desktop
network-manager-gnome
network-manager-kde
ubuntu-desktop