[SOLVED]Re: flakey wifi access

2014-09-14 Thread mett
On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:13:14 -0700 tom arnall wrote: > SOLVED! > > i use wicd and i changed a preference: > > preferences>external programs and change 'auto' to 'dhclient' > > Mett, is this the equivalent of what you suggest doing manually? > > thanks everyone for your help. > > Tom > > On

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread mett
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:39:29 -0400 ken wrote: > On 06/29/2014 10:50 PM tom arnall wrote: > > my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in > > mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee > > shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:43:14 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: > In my case, the issue was with the underlying driver with the card > plus wicd's poor handling of failures. The connection would drop, > but wicd would continue to try to do DHCP on the connection, so it There may be something else (in sid

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 5:20 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexi

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread Brian Flaherty
On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexico. I had used wicd for months without pr

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread ken
On 06/29/2014 10:50 PM tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexico. "Unable to connect" can mean a lot of th

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've had something similar happen, but it turned out that the problem wasn't wicd but rather the driver for the card itself. Can you check if the problem occurs with something other than wicd? Also, what wifi card? On 6/29/2014 7:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to w

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:50:19 -0800 tom arnall wrote: > my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in > mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop > i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in > mexico. > > Find common fac

flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread tom arnall
my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o