Tried connecting to my Office wireless network using WICD. My office network is secured by LEAP. Wicd failed to connect to Office wireless. I was unable to connect to Office Wireless Network from Network Manager also. So no regression there. Amazingly I have a small 4 line script using wpa_supplicant and dhclient that connects me to Office wireless Network. The wpa_supplicant conf file used manually (my script) and the wpa_supplicant file used by wicd resemble a lot. Hence the failure of wicd to connect to hidden essid Office wireless network is all the more intriguing. One positive that came out of this whole exercise: When manually connected to a wireless network, wicd atleast recognizes that I am on the network and also shows the network connected (if there are more than one). Network Manager was unable to do this.