[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd)

On Thu, Dec 19 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:23:05 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>> >> Canek told me off-list that, when using NM, you don't enable dhcpcd,
>> >> NM handles it all.  Poof and when the smoke cleared ...
>> >
>> > The same applies to Wicd, the default systemd config appears to have
>> > broken both in the same way. Maybe something should be added to the
>> > systemd wiki page to cover this.
>>
>> The systemd default config is OK; if I'm not mistaken, Allan manually
>> enabled both NM and dhcpcd (and, at the time, wicd and dhcpcd). There
>> is no (reasonable) way for systemd to know that this is broken;
>
> Right, I hadn't realised the configuration had been changed manually.

The configuration needed to be changed, just correctly :-).  Out of the
box, none of the network managers are enabled.  My error was in enabling
dhcpcd as well as NM.  I did need to enable NM "manually".

allan