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Ubuntu: WiCD Network Manager “Connection Failed: Bad Password” [SOLVED]

If you’re familiar with correctly entering your WPA2 password after an Ubuntu update and now your Netbook won’t connect using WiCD, I got the solution that worked for me.

Uninstall network-manager and restart WiCD

Open a terminal and type:

$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager
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$ sudo /etc/init.d/wicd restart

You may have to restart wicd daemon twice in case you don’t see the wireless networks right away.

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14 Responses to “Ubuntu: WiCD Network Manager “Connection Failed: Bad Password” [SOLVED]”

  1. diego73 Says:
    December 5th, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    This is may solution read thin link: (post #11)

    http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1560502&page=2

  2. lickalott Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 1:06 am

    dude…you rock. I pounded my head against my keyboard for 45 mins wondering why i couldn’t get that to work. I uninstalled network-manager from the Ubuntu Software Center and installed Wicd manager so i thought it was already uninstalled.

    Kudos to you my friend.

  3. meerkat_92 Says:
    February 6th, 2011 at 6:32 am

    Thanks mate! but how to now get vpn run? also how to remove network manager completely as its just annoying to see ! icon on panel.

  4. bizbot Says:
    June 26th, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    worked like a charm. respec’!

  5. Marianne Says:
    July 27th, 2011 at 7:41 am

    YAY!!!!! Works :D

  6. Julio Says:
    August 17th, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Thank you so much!!!!

  7. Koga Says:
    September 10th, 2011 at 8:47 am

    You rock! Thanks

  8. BOB Says:
    October 13th, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO DO THIS, BE WARNED IT DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. NOW MY COMPUTER DOESNT EVEN IDENTIFY AN WIRELESS NETWORKS. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT COULD WORK OR IT COULD SKREW UP EVERYTHING. THE RISK IS YOURS…

  9. juangov Says:
    October 17th, 2011 at 7:43 am

    Thank you very much it worked really good

  10. Andrewzorz Says:
    November 4th, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    when i was trying to conect wireless network, it was saying bad password and after no more conexion and freezing. i needed to restart each time and i had no wireless conexion at all. NOW IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM THANKS A LOT !!:D:D:D

  11. guille Says:
    December 18th, 2011 at 6:26 am

    It works!.

  12. sfsdfdfsdfsdf Says:
    February 1st, 2012 at 2:55 am

    bash commmand
    airmon-ng check kill

    it killed a few processess and i connected after that no problem

  13. shaahid Says:
    March 19th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    THANKS A LOT MATE….MAY YOU CARVE A NICHE FOR YOURSELF IN THE LINUX WORLD

  14. XW Says:
    September 11th, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    Thank you sooooooooooooooo much! Hat off to you, dude!

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