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On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: |
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> > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? |
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> Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed |
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> me :-) |
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> I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, |
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> sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. |
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> eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane |
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> to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed |
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> IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose |
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> its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is |
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> unplugged. |
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> Is it there a way to fix this? |
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> With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for |
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> a few minutes, then it switches back to wired. |
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> So I'm going to try wpa_gui... |
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> Cheers |
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> Francesco |
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An the winner is... |
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wicd. |
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The uptime was quite regular, so it came to my mind the DHCP client |
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demon. |
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It was the DHCP indeed, instead of automatic (that picks up dhclient) I |
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switched to dhcpcd and now works like a charm |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48 |
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CET 2008 |
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Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.02 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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