Wireless connect works every other time.

[Eric Walker]

Binary package hint: wicd

My Thinkpad laptop has Wicd installed and all of network manager removed. The system is Maverick, from a fresh install (not an upgrade). There is both a wired connection to the household router and a wireless one. The wired connection can be made every time with no problem. With the install-default settings, the wireless, which is not encrypted, would always show up (100% strength), but would fail to connect. I was able to get it to connect by making some entries in the wireless "Properties" page (the "Preferences" are unchanged from install defaults): I selected "Use Static IPs" and entered the IP address that Network Manager had been using, in my case 192.168.200.103, and the Netmask and Gateway were then auto-set by just clicking in those areas (255.255.255.0 and 192.168.200.1, which, I believe, is the router's address).

With that set up, I have a curious situation: the wireless will connect every *other* attempt. If I try and it fails, I can retry and it will succeed. If I then disconnect, or switch to the wird, it will fail, then, on the next try, succeed. I can set here and connect and disconnect (without touching the wired connect) time after time, and the wireless connect always works that way: success every other time. I suppose something somewhere is getting set when it connects, but not unset at disconnect 9or vice-versa). It is not a fatal problem by any means, but it is curious and mildly annoying.

It fails at the attempt to ping the access point for verification. The logs for successful and unsuccessful look alike till the pings start: one gets it on the first try, the other never does. Bizarre . . . .

Please let me know what other data might be wanted. Oh, this is version 1.7.0, from the Ububntu repositories.