[SOLVED] WICD - "No wireless networks found" kernel upgrade

[NathanZachary]

Hello all,

I am using the iwlwifi driver (with iwldvm) and the iwl6005-ucode firmware for my wireless NIC. Previously, I was running the 4.12.3 kernel, and WICD worked just fine. Now, on the 4.18.8 kernel, WICD only shows "No wireless networks found". I've been troubleshooting, but haven't found anything that may have caused the change in behaviour. I thought that possibly there was a change in how wifi scanning worked because `iwlist wlp3s0 scan` now shows "Interface doesn't support scanning", but I tried that same command using the previous kernel and the output is the same. Using `iw dev wlp3s0 scan | grep "SSID:"` shows a list of the available networks, though.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,
Nathan Zachary
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[khayyam]

[NathanZachary]

Thank you very much for the pointer; that was indeed the problem. Odd, though, since I had switched WICD to use the nl80211 WPA Supplicant driver. I'm guessing that it didn't actually honour that preference, so going back to WEXT and making sure that configuration was enabled in my kernel fixed the issue.

Thanks again for the suggestion; much appreciated!

Cheers,
Nathan Zachary
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[khayyam]