Comment 22 for bug 548992

After a couple other folks said they had luck by getting rid of network-manager, I figured I'd give wicd another shot. I removed network manager, rebooted, manually configured a wired network, then installed wicd. I've been going on a few days now with no disconnects, so perhaps something is amiss with network-manager.

That being said, wicd doesn't seem to work 100% either in that it never shows me other wireless networks. When I first installed wicd, it showed me a list of wireless networks and I picked mine and put in my WPA passphrase. After rebooting, wicd kept prompting me for my password. I got around that by adding "exec wicd" to /etc/init/networking.conf. Wicd always connects to my network on reboot without issue, but if I try to scan for other networks, it says none are found. As long as it connects to my network, I'm okay, but it's still not right.

As a side note, as root if I do an iwlist scan, I get an error message about resource temporarily unavailable. If I do an iwlist scan as a non-root user, it returns my network, but no others.

At least I have a usable wireless connection now. I may go back now and try to build an old otusdriver, as the ar9170usb driver still doesn't support n speeds.