Bug 996142 - wicd can't connect to wifi on lenovo X230
Summary: wicd can't connect to wifi on lenovo X230
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wicd
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-12 13:46 UTC by Lokesh Mandvekar
Modified: 2014-07-01 22:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-10-25 01:20:57 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Lokesh Mandvekar 2013-08-12 13:46:15 UTC
Description of problem:

This is probably a device specific bug:
wicd doesn't connect to open wireless
fails to connect to WPA2 wireless (Bad password)

This occurs on lenovo X230 with:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)

but works fine on lenovo T520 with: 
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.7.2.4-7


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. try connecting to wifi

Comment 1 David Cantrell 2013-08-14 15:39:34 UTC
I've seen this behavior in some systems before.  Can you try with the default tools in Fedora (GNOME with NetworkManager) and see if you are able to connect.  I want to verify that this is a lower level problem and not specifically related to wicd.

Comment 2 Lokesh Mandvekar 2013-08-14 16:25:27 UTC
It worked fine with NetworkManager. I'm a tiling wm user and I avoid most of the GUI stuff, but I do start the NetworkManager service for my home network and it connects automatically.

Also, I migrated my /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf from my working machine to my problem machine. This does allow me to connect to say 'attwifi' at Starbucks when I start wicd via systemctl, but if I want to connect to a new WPA2 network, it would just fail with a Bad password error.

Hope that helps

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2013-09-16 16:31:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 20 development cycle.
Changing version to '20'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora20

Comment 4 Lokesh Mandvekar 2013-10-25 01:20:57 UTC
seems to be working fine now. closing it.


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