Xfce and wicd

I've discovered to have a strange problem with Xfce and Wicd because when i open wicd client window it freezes and so i can't connect to any access point, in the shell i obtain this output:
[marco@tokenet ~]$ wicd-client
Has notifications support True
Loading...
Connecting to daemon...
Connected.
Done loading.
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wicd/gui.py:151: GtkWarning: gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size: assertion `icon_size != GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID' failed
self.wTree = gtk.glade.XML(gladefile)
Under openbox i've no problem with wicd, only with Xfce this happens, why? Thanks, Marco

Oh dear lord. Please search the forums for one of the two or three dozen threads on this exact issue. It's the slim update.

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==> ------------------------------------
==> n
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- linux-headers (already installed)
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==> -----------------------------------
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==> -------------------------------------
==>
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--2011-10-22 16:44:38-- http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … 111.tar.gz
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1407430 (1.3M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz.part'
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2011-10-22 16:44:41 (573 KB/s) - `hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz.part' saved [1407430/1407430]
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-> Found license.patch
-> Found semaphore.patch
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hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz ... Passed
modprobe.d ... Passed
license.patch ... Passed
semaphore.patch ... Passed
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So, I looked around to see if yaourt had left anything behind:
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[motdef@titan ~]$ sudo modprobe -r wl
Password:
[motdef@titan ~]$ modprobe wl
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/3.0-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko): Operation not permitted
Apparently modprobe thinks it exists even though the related files don't. I tried rebooting, and now I'm getting errors there, too (sorry about the crude photograph, I couldn't work out how to send the errors to a file):
As I said earlier, b43 isn't compatible with my chipset anyway, so it's not a huge problem, but irritating nevertheless.
I'm really stuck for ideas. I'm not sure if the broadcom-wl package files are actually on my system or not, and I've no idea what's missing from the kernel folder, and what it's got to do with the b43 errors at startup. Any suggestions?
Last edited by mot.def (2011-10-28 11:26:03)

mot.def wrote:
I had b43 and ssb blacklisted, as the wiki suggested.
I just reinstalled Arch from scratch and set up broadcom-wl again. Got another kernel panic after doing "sudo modprobe wl" (and got a picture), and after that I started getting the familiar modprobe and yaourt error messages.
I'll start again and try using b43, though I did try it on my very first attempt and it definitely didn't want to work with the wireless card.
I had the same kernel panic after updating the broadcom-wl driver today. I removed the driver and am now using brcmsmac which is part of the kernel. Maybe you can check that out if its compatible with your card. (See the wiki for more details.)

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anonymous_user wrote:
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You are either not trying around & searching for solutions enough or not providing enough info on what you already did.
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Did you check - and where necessary - try to fix the configuration as described here?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gtk

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