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[Mike Rose <psu89@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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Wireless connection frequently drops  [deauthenticating by local choice (reason=3)]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548992
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