Putting this outside the 7.1 beta thread, it could be an unnecessary distraction there.
On 32-bit VL 7.1 B0.50, wicd works fine on my laptop.
On all other machines, including vm's, wicd fails to start. Tried on machines with and without wireless connection.
Log file shows errors:
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: ---------------------------
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: wicd initializing...
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: ---------------------------
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: wicd is version 1.7.2.4 768
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: Traceback (most recent call last):
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1849, in <module>
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: main(sys.argv)
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: File "/usr/share/wicd/daemon/wicd-daemon.py", line 1811, in main
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: wicd_bus = dbus.service.BusName('org.wicd.daemon', bus=bus)
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 131, in __new__
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: retval = bus.request_name(name, name_flags)
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 303, in request_name
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: 'su', (name, flags))
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: message, timeout)
2013/11/20 17:41:18 :: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.5" is not allowed to own the service "org.wicd.daemon" due to security policies in the configuration file