I applied the patch in #109 with no success: icd-curses
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1063, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 995, in main ui.run_wrapper(run) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urwid/raw_display.py", line 237, in run_wrapper return fn() File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 89, in wrapper return func(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 1003, in run app = appGUI() File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 592, in __init__ self.update_status() File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 89, in wrapper return func(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 728, in update_status if check_for_wired(wired.GetWiredIP(''),self.set_status): File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 89, in wrapper return func(*args, **kargs) File "/usr/share/wicd/curses/wicd-curses.py", line 134, in check_for_wired set_status(_('Connected to wired network (IP: $A)').replace('$A',wired_ip)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128) dpkg -s wicd-curses Package: wicd-curses Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 198 Maintainer: David Paleino <da...@debian.org> Architecture: all Source: wicd Version: 1.7.1-1 Replaces: wicd (<= 1.6.2.2-4) Provides: wicd-client Depends: python (>= 2.6.6-7~), python-urwid, wicd-daemon (= 1.7.1-1) Recommends: sudo Breaks: wicd (<= 1.6.2.2-4) Description: wired and wireless network manager - Curses client Wicd is a general-purpose network configuration server which aims to provide a simple but flexible interface for connecting to networks. Its features include: * wide variety of settings; * ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and wireless networks; * support for many encryption schemes, including WEP, WPA, WPA2 and custom schemes; * wireless-tools compatibility. . This package provides the Curses/Urwid client, which is the client of choice in environments without X server. Homepage: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, António