Subject: bug#464: wicd: does not find any ESSID on my wifi and does not support WPA-AES encryption...

From: fsmithred <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 07:32:34 -0400

Wicd will do WPA2 (AES) for regular wireless connections, but not for ad
hoc networks.

Go into wicd preferences and make sure wlan0 is set as the default
wireless interface. You might need to maximize the wicd window to find the
preferences.

Make sure you have the right firmware installed for your wireless
interface if it needs it.

When wicd can see your essid, click on the Properties button to set the
encryption type and password. I use WPA1/2 (Passphrase). It does not say
AES anywhere, but the router is set to use WPA2 (AES).

fsmithred

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> Subject: wicd: does not find any ESSID on my wifi and does not support
>  WPA-AES encryption...
> From: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <[email-masked]>
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> Package: wicd
> Version: 1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Without using ifupdown and /etc/network/interfaces for my wifi card,
> "ip l" looks like
> 
> $ ip l
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:1b:d3:88:9b:8f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:24:d6:59:c6:68 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 
> Under this situation, wicd network manager, which is the default
> desktop network manager in Devuan, shows no ESSIDs attached as
> screenshot (in Japanese).
> 
> Then "Configure an ad-hoc network" shows that encryption is
> supported only by WEP, which is now considered very insecure.
> WPA-AES is not supported for encryption by wicd.
> Simply, I cannot use wicd to configure wifi on laptop.
> Instead I can use /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/network/interfaces,
> so unusability of wicd is acceptable.
> But I wonder what is the supposed GUI method to configure
> wifi with WPA-AES encryption on Devuan Beowulf...
> 
> Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto
> 
> -- System Information:
> Distributor ID:	Debian
> Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
> Release:	3
> Codename:	beowulf
> Architecture: x86_64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages wicd depends on:
> ii  wicd-daemon             1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> 
> wicd recommends no packages.
> 
> wicd suggests no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages wicd-gtk depends on:
> ii  python         2.7.16-1
> ii  python-glade2  2.24.0-5.1+b1
> ii  python-gtk2    2.24.0-5.1+b1
> ii  wicd-daemon    1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> 
> Versions of packages wicd-gtk recommends:
> ii  policykit-1    0.105-25+devuan8
> ii  python-notify  0.1.1-4
> 
> Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on:
> ii  adduser           3.118
> ii  dbus              1.12.16-1+devuan2
> ii  debconf           1.5.71
> ii  iputils-ping      3:20180629-2+deb10u1
> ii  isc-dhcp-client   4.4.1-2
> ii  lsb-base          10.2019051400
> ii  net-tools         1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1+devuan1
> ii  psmisc            23.2-1
> ii  python            2.7.16-1
> ii  python-dbus       1.2.8-3
> ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-13+b1
> ii  python-wicd       1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> ii  wireless-tools    30~pre9-13
> ii  wpasupplicant     2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u2
> 
> Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends:
> ii  rfkill                  2.33.1-0.1+devuan1~beowulf2
> ii  wicd-gtk [wicd-client]  1.7.4+tb2-6+devuan1.1
> 
> Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests:
> pn  ethtool   <none>
> ii  iproute2  4.20.0-2
> pn  pm-utils  <none>
> 
> Versions of packages python-wicd depends on:
> ii  net-tools  1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1+devuan1
> ii  python     2.7.16-1
> 
> Versions of packages python-wicd suggests:
> pn  ethtool   <none>
> ii  iproute2  4.20.0-2
> 
> -- debconf information:
> * wicd/users: