[SOLVED] Wicd and dbus error

I have two laptops running Zorin, and one running Kubuntu, I have put Wicd on the Kubuntu unit, and I'm no longer having the wirelss signal drop periodically. Now I'm trying to get it working on the Zorin units, however I'm getting the same can't connect to dbus error, I had with the other unit. It actually seems to be a Wicd/Ubuntu error more than a Zorin, however who better to make it work with Zorin that people that work with Zorin everyday. Especially since I've had to reinstall on one Zorin machine because of the standard Ubuntu fixes. What is the trick to getting Wicd to work with Zorin? I'm not exactly the usual Linux geek, that I could have been at one time. Also I'm having trouble, this unit the internal built in wireless adapter has quit functining properly, but I can't manage to completely disable it, and every once in a while it comes back to life and causes the network to drop off, until it has been disabled again. This along with the service just dropping from the Network-Manager connection it can be a pain. What would be the best way to permanently disable it?

Can you please post back here the results of the following commands? I want to see the ID of your wireless card.

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all

Here it is, and thanks for the help.

dawn@dawn-K54C:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:5390]

dawn@dawn-K54C:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:a014 Alcor Micro Corp. Asus Integrated Webcam
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1d57:001d Xenta
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter

dawn@dawn-K54C:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for dawn:
*-network DISABLED
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: 08:ed:b9:6a:36:0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.8.0-35-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:de800000-de80ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 10:bf:48:17:49:00
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.1-NAPI latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:51 memory:dd400000-dd43ffff ioport:a000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:1.2.3
logical name: wlan1
serial: 7c:dd:90:12:d2:f2
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.8.0-35-generic firmware=0.29 ip=192.168.2.9 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn


dawn@dawn-K54C:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for dawn:
*-network DISABLED
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: 08:ed:b9:6a:36:0f
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.8.0-35-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:de800000-de80ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: 10:bf:48:17:49:00
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.1-NAPI latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:51 memory:dd400000-dd43ffff ioport:a000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@2:1.2.3
logical name: wlan1
serial: 7c:dd:90:12:d2:f2
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.8.0-35-generic firmware=0.29 ip=192.168.2.9 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
dawn@dawn-K54C:~$ sudo rfkill list all
0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Hi.
Are you sure that this is a network manager problem?
Also, what is the problem with your internal wireless card?

In any case, have you tried to blacklist the driver of the internal card (rt2800pci) so as not to conflict with the driver of the USB card (rt2800usb)?
To do this, in terminal :

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/rt2800pci-disable.conf

and inside, add the line:

Code:

blacklist rt2800pci

Save, exit and reboot.

Also just to make sure that the rt2800usb is loaded at each startup, you could do the following:
In terminal

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

and at the endof the file add the line

Code:

rt2800usb

Save, exit, reboot.

If it does not work, we may have to blacklist some other modules as well, so please post back here the result of the following terminal command:

Code:

lsmod

Thank you that worked. The internal card, just stopped receiving, it showed it was connected, but there was no network connection. I pulled the usb out of an old desktop that we keep around for the 8 y/o to play with, just to try it, when it worked I knew I had a bad card. So I got another usb adapter, and plugged in, and it worked as long as the other one didn't pop back up. The only devices that have a problem with dropping signal from the router are the one's running network manager. Reboot the machine back into windows and it never drops the connection, boot into Linux, and every now and then it will just drop connection, for anywhere from 2-75 seconds. The other devices in the same room still have connection when a particular machine drops. So if two out of three machines have connection, that tells me it's either a hardware or software problem with that machine, then it doesn't drop in windows, then it's not a hardware issue, that means it has to be a software issue.

Thank you again.

EDIT: You can mark this SOLVED.

Glad I helped my friend.

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