<div dir="ltr">Solved:<div>Debian installs network-manager by default and I installed wicd. The two interfere</div><div>with each other. But its a mystery why it worked until the last upgrade as before that</div><div>both programs were installed and worked OK.</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Nick Schmalenberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@schmalenberger.us" target="_blank">nick@schmalenberger.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 06:53:20PM -0700, Richard Harke wrote:<br>
> This is happening on two different laptops. One is using a usb wifi fob<br>
> with realtek chip set. My new laptop<br>
> uses intel wifi. I use wicd to select and bring up a connection. The first<br>
> try always takes a very long time<br>
> and fails with bad password. If I then immediately click connect again, it<br>
> connects in 1 or 2 seconds and remains<br>
> connected for a variable length of time. At starbucks (open AP) it connects<br>
> right away but disconnects<br>
> 4 to 6 seconds later. I haven't tried all permutations of machine and AP<br>
> but a recent debian seems to be the<br>
> main common point. Problem started on the old machine after upgrading to<br>
> sid. And now the new machine is<br>
> installed with jessie. (which was sid when the old machine was upgraded)<br>
> Its on my new machine I noticed the log files<br>
> growing and saw entries for wpa_supplicant every few seconds (syslog and<br>
> daemon.log)<br>
> Richard<br>
><br>
</span>Despite all the seeming bloatedness of NetworkManager, I've had<br>
quite good luck with it on my current Debian laptop. It<br>
especially helped once I found nmtui, because I don't have any<br>
window manager that works decently with the NetworkManager gui<br>
and I think that was my main source of frustration with it<br>
before.<br>
<br>
The only other possible problem I can see with it, is if I want<br>
to manually change my ip on a interface I just added with vlan<br>
tagging or something, NetworkManager may interfere, but I usually<br>
only have to do that at work, where I have a Mac whose GUI<br>
works decently enough even for vlan tagging.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Nick<br>
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