Comment 18 for bug 250197

I have a solution :
My ubuntu 9.10 studio installation came without network manager. Because I had problems with network manager and WPA on earlier ubuntu versions I decided to give wicd a try. At first it worked well without problems. But suddenly since a few days after some Software Updates I don't remember so well I had the same problem: "Wicd needs to access your computer's network cards" asking for the root password. In /var/log/wicd/wicd.log I had ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf [line 23]: '[]\n' With an editor I saw there were square brackets at the end of the file which I had't put there. After removing them the above problem vanishd, but networks connections are still not established. I found out the wicd setup files under /etc/wicd/ have been replaced by some almost empty default. The setup has to be done again.