SOLVED Can no longer connect to WiFi

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SOLVED Can no longer connect to WiFi

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Hello,
I have been searching around and can't seem to find a simple solution for this. So here goes.
I had no problems setting up and connecting to my wifi until a couple of updates ago. Now I cannot connect at all. Just goes into an endless cycle of asking me for my network password and never logging on. I have no problems using a wired network connection.
Here's the particulars and thank you for helping with this!

Computer:
Asus x54c Laptop

Router
Cisco Linksys e2000

Wireless card from lshw
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 84:4b:f5:1c:54:6a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic firmware=0.34 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:de800000-de80ffff

Info from mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
==> PCI ID = 1814:5390
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 30:85:a9:09:ac:4b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1452209 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:114754 (114.7 KB)
Interrupt:51

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19220 (19.2 KB) TX bytes:19220 (19.2 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:4b:f5:1c:54:6a
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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Re: Can no longer connect to WiFi

Post by 3pinner »

Solved it.
Installed Wicd from the repositories, removed Network Manager and I can now connect. Evidently Wicd doesn't depend on Gnome, so the issues with the updates don't affect its function. So far so good.
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