Comment 10 for bug 129608

I also am unable to connect to ad-hoc networks. wicd does not change mode from managed to ad-hoc.
I am running wicd 1.5.3 on ubuntu 8.04.1 with ath5k driver

I am using this method: a pre-connection script configured on the ad-hoc network:
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc
with it wicd connects to the ad-hoc network, the link works well but the network does not get a disconnect button. why?
I tried to configure a disconnect script on the ad-hoc network:
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
but it is not executed :-( is this related to the missing disconnect button?
so the only impractical way is to put it as pre-connection script on every managed network.