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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to |
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>> work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' |
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>> and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area. |
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>> Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using NetworkManager on |
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>> this machine, I thought I'd give wicd a try. Trouble is, wicd, for |
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>> whatever reason, isn't seeing any any of the cells. If I run "wicd-cli |
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>> --wireless -l", I get a list's headers, but no observed networks. If I |
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>> run "wicd-cli --wireless -S", I get no output at all. |
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>> The page on gentoo-wiki.com for wicd[1] talks about a few |
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>> configuration files for manual configuration, but those aren't present |
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>> on the filesystem, and there are no manpages for them. |
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>> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd#Manual_Configuration |
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> As far I can remeber, I just removed net.ethX from /etc/init.d and ran |
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> rc-confg add wicd boot. |
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> Inside wicd preference I set wlan0 and eth0 as my network interfaces. |
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> My emerge packages that came with wicd : |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libnl-1.1-r2 USE="-doc" 283 kB |
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[ebuild N ] dev-python/notify-python-0.1.1-r1 210 kB |
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[ebuild N ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.2 USE="-doc -examples -test" |
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[ebuild N ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-r2 USE="dbus gnutls |
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readline ssl -debug -eap-sim -fasteap -madwifi (-ps3) -qt4 -wimax -wps" |
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[ebuild N ] dev-python/urwid-0.9.9.1 USE="-examples" 233 kB |
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[ebuild N ] x11-misc/ktsuss-1.4 273 kB |
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[ebuild N ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 USE="X gtk libnotify ncurses nls |
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pm-utils (-i |
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> :wq |
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