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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher |
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<newsspam@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a |
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> laptop. It all started with a big sync & world update that gave me new |
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> udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17, |
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> openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are |
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> that I cannot even get wired _listed_ in wicd, and when connecting to |
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> various different wireless routers, the connection died quickly. The e1000e |
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> driver (for wired) apparently never detects when a cable is connected, and |
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> when trying it through /etc/init.d/net.eth0, dhcpcd times out when waiting |
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> for a carrier... I tried alternating kernels (tuxonice- and gentoo-sources, |
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> both older and new ones between 2.3.38-r1 and 3.2.1) and kernel |
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> configurations as well as downgrades of several suspect packages, without |
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> success. |
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> Does that ring a bell with someone? Any advice how I can track down these |
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> problems? |
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There was a thread a while back about wicd quit working. The solution |
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then was to edit /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf and change the |
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backend from "external" to "ioctl". |