Bug 347543 – Manual connection to WEP wifi works whereas wicd fails

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description pier 2010-12-02 10:49:07 UTC]

Manual connection to WEP wifi works whereas wicd fails reporting:
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2010/12/02 11:37:18 :: Attempt 9 of 10...
2010/12/02 11:37:20 :: Attempt 10 of 10...
2010/12/02 11:37:23 :: Connection Failed: Failed to ping the access point!
2010/12/02 11:37:23 :: exiting connection thread
2010/12/02 11:37:24 :: Sending connection attempt result association_failed

[Comment 1 pier 2010-12-02 10:52:52 UTC]

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:40:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="it en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 amr apm arts avi berkdb blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps ccache cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dga directfb dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fltk fortran gdbm gif glitz glut glx gpm gs gtk hddtemp hdf5 httpd iconv ipv6 java jpeg kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mpi-threads mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png postscript ppds pppd preview-latex python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reiserfs romio samba scanner sdl sensord session slang sound sox spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff tk truetype type1 unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vesa vorbis wavpack wifi wma wma123 wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xml xorg xplanet xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-12-12 02:24:16 UTC]

I don't see how I can fix this...report the issue upstream, please.

[Comment 3 pier 2010-12-12 09:45:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't see how I can fix this...report the issue upstream, please.
> 

Ok, I'll do that. Thanks