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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:07:12
Message-Id: 87haa43jvh.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: Wireless fixed (network-manager but NO dhcpcd) (was: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)) by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thu, Dec 19 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:07:16 -0500, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
4 >
5 >> Switched to systemd and all was well for weeks.
6 >> Then failure occurred (non-global ctrl_ifname).
7 >> Tried network-manager (NM) with no success.
8 >>
9 >> New.
10 >> Canek told me off-list that, when using NM, you don't enable dhcpcd,
11 >> NM handles it all. Poof and when the smoke cleared ...
12 >
13 > The same applies to Wicd, the default systemd config appears to have
14 > broken both in the same way. Maybe something should be added to the
15 > systemd wiki page to cover this.
16
17 I added the comment about NM to the systemd wiki (It was already in the
18 NM wiki; shamefully I didn't see it). The systemd wiki doesn't mention
19 wicd so I didn't include anything about it.
20
21 allan