Hi, I don't expect a new release anytime soon based on upstream motivation. It would be nice to add this patch[1] to Gentoo's release. I use ad-hoc only occaisionaly coming from my android phone's wireless tether, but it would be nice to not have to mess around with it... :) thx. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/129608
Applied, sorry for the delay. +*wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r6 (13 Sep 2011) + + 13 Sep 2011; Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org> -wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r5.ebuild, + +wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r6.ebuild, +files/add-wpa-psk-hex-template.patch, + +files/fix-ad-hoc-networking.patch: + Fix bugs 351337 (ad-hoc-net), 306423 (wpa-hex-template)