Re: [gentoo-user] wicd

[Fernando Antunes]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:

> So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to
> work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan'
> and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area.
>
> Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using NetworkManager on
> this machine, I thought I'd give wicd a try. Trouble is, wicd, for
> whatever reason, isn't seeing any any of the cells. If I run "wicd-cli
> --wireless -l", I get a list's headers, but no observed networks. If I
> run "wicd-cli --wireless -S", I get no output at all.
>
> The page on gentoo-wiki.com for wicd[1] talks about a few
> configuration files for manual configuration, but those aren't present
> on the filesystem, and there are no manpages for them.
>
>
> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd#Manual_Configuration
> --
>

As far I can remeber, I just removed net.ethX from /etc/init.d and ran
rc-confg add wicd boot.

Inside wicd preference I set  wlan0 and eth0 as my network interfaces.


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