Re: [gentoo-user] Can't connect to router with 3 different interfaces

[Grant]

>> >> I have 2 different USB wireless network adapters and an internal
>> >> PCIe adapter and none will connect to a Jazztel router I need to
>> >> connect to on the road.  I've tried several different kernels.
>> >> I've tried restarting the router and I've verified that the WEP
>> >> password is correct by logging into the router itself (good ol'
>> >> admin/admin) but wicd always gives me the "bad password" message.
>> >> dmesg isn't very informative.  All I get is from the internal
>> >> adapter (with debugging enabled for the driver) after each failure
>> >> is:
>> >>
>> >> L1 Disabled: Enabling L0S
>> >> Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
>> >> wlan0: link is not ready
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know how to figure this out?
>> >
>> > I would try setting a static IP on the client in wicd... maybe
>> > something in the DHCP session between the router and client is
>> > wonky.
>>
>> I thought the same thing and tried that but it didn't end up working.
>> The good news is I got it working by doing this in /etc/conf.d/net:
>>
>> modules="!wpa_supplicant"
>> ssid_wlan0="SSID"
>> key_SSID="s:PASSWORD enc open"
>>
>> I couldn't get wpa_supplicant working either but maybe I didn't take
>> enough time with the config.  I guess this was a wicd bug?  I love it
>> when working on something all day long actually pays off.
>
> When working with wicd, rule 1 is delete all /etc/conf.d/net
> and /etc/init.d/net*
>
> They just interfere with wicd and make your life miserable (as you
> found out)

I actually had no /etc/init.d/net.* files except net.lo and
/etc/conf.d/net was empty.  I finally gave up on wicd and set up the
openrc stuff when I got my third network interface working with the
same result.

- Grant