Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM,  <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
> At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem
> until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly.
> The problem must have started sometime within the past month.
>
> If I have wicd started by systemd, i.e.
> systemctl enable wicd
> The wired network is started fine but not the wireless.  Instead, I see
> in the systemd journal
>
> wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wired  error: No
> such file or directory
> wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wireless  error: No
> such file or directory
>
> If I instead systemctl disable wicd, reboot, and then manually type
> wpa_supplicant -i wireless -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
> it works.
>
> Indeed after I have booted I can start wicd and cannot get the error
> above, but the actual behavior is not consistent.
>
> My system is ~amd64, profile gnome/systemd
>
> My wireless driver is from the package broadcom-sta (wl)

I have never used wicd, so I can't say exactly what it's the problem;
but I was under the impression that wicd is basically dead. Its last
release was more than a year and a half ago.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México