I get the following snippet in wicd.log everytime I disconnect from a wireless-network: 2010/01/04 23:24:48 :: Couldn't find a wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface for iface wlan0 2010/01/04 23:24:48 :: Putting interface down 2010/01/04 23:24:48 :: ERROR:dbus.service:Unable to append ('f2\r\xb71X\xa3Z%]\x05\x17X\xe9^\xd4\xab\xb2\xcd\xc6\x9b\xb4T\x11\x0e\x82tA!=\xdc\x87',) to message with signature (s) (guessed): <type 'exceptions.UnicodeError'>: String parameters to be sent over D-Bus must be valid UTF-8 2010/01/04 23:24:48 :: Releasing DHCP leases... dhcpcd: dhcpcd not running 2010/01/04 23:24:49 :: Setting false IP... 2010/01/04 23:24:49 :: Stopping wpa_supplicantERROR:dbus.service:Unable to append ('f2\r\xb71X\xa3Z%]\x05\x17X\xe9^\xd4\xab\xb2\xcd\xc6\x9b\xb4T\x11\x0e\x82tA!=\xdc\x87',) to message with signature (s) (guessed): <type 'exceptions.UnicodeError'>: String parameters to be sent over D-Bus must be valid UTF-8 2010/01/04 23:24:49 :: 2010/01/04 23:24:49 :: Couldn't find a wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface for iface wlan0 2010/01/04 23:24:49 :: Flushing the routing table... dev: Host name lookup failure Switching from ioctl to external makes these disappear.
> > Switching from ioctl to external makes these disappear. > For this version, even switching to external does not fix all problem. I got a lot of dropout with this latest release. The alphas versions definitively run better but they are no longer in the tree.
It is true that I haven't tried ioctl backend in awhile. I'll try to see what is up with it. (In reply to comment #1) > > > > Switching from ioctl to external makes these disappear. > > > > For this version, even switching to external does not fix all problem. I got a > lot of dropout with this latest release. The alphas versions definitively run > better but they are no longer in the tree. > Francois, It is hard to debug "alphas run better" - please get involved and report your issues upstream at http://wicd.net so that the 1.7 release can be great. FWIW, for me, 1.7 is more than fine.
in >=beta5, ioctl is marked as "NOT SUPPORTED" (in the gtk client view) As such, I have masked the USE flag because Gentoo will not support it either. Thanks for reporting your issue.
Jeremy, I too am having severe problems with dropouts and lost connections with wicd-1.7.0 final-build 552. Especially in comparison to ver. 1.6.2.2 build-463. I filed this bug report upstream #530292 in regards to the situation. Previously, I used the "ioctl" use flag. Since the ebuild for 1.7.0 had it disabled I has the use the "external" instead which I now believe is the culprit for the dropouts and lost connections. I say this because 2 days ago I rebuilt wicd with "ioctl" enabled by placing net-misc/wicd -ioctl in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask now my connection issues have been resolved. Even though ioctl may no longer be officially supported upstream, it appears as though its use does improve connection on some systems. I'm going to comment on this to my bug report upstream. To the original poster Francois, the "Couldn't find a wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface for iface wlan0" comment in the log appears in previous versions as well as this one. However, no matter how I configured my system I was unable to produce the other comments in your log. I hope this helps.
