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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:09:33
Message-Id: 4F2B1746.2080401@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
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4 On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
5 > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat <pat@××××××××.org> wrote: [
6 > Humongous snip ]
7 >
8 >> Still the same :-|
9 >
10 > Seems really weird. I can only think the following options:
11 >
12 > 1. Something is messing up with NetworkManager.
13 >
14 > 1.a. Can be possible that the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts are
15 > running alongside NetworkManager? I don't use OpenRC (I moved to
16 > systemd), but I clearly remember that for NetworkManager to run OK
17 > in Gentoo you had to disable the net.* services in /etc/rc.conf:
18 >
19 > rc_hotplug="!net.*"
20 >
21 > 1.b. Maybe something is wrong with your
22 > NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant installation; try deleting (after
23 > making a backup, of course) the following directories/files:
24 >
25 > /etc/NetworkManager /etc/wpa_supplicant /etc/conf.d/net
26 >
27 > and then emerge again both packages:
28 >
29 > emerge -1v networkmanger wpa_supplicant
30 >
31 > And try again after a reboot.
32 >
33 > 2. Maybe (for some weird reason) NetworkManager refuses to work in
34 > your system. If this is the case, disable all your network
35 > services (avahi*, cups, NetworkManager, net.*), and boot to a
36 > console. When I'm dealing with this kind of stuff, I even disable
37 > X, just to be sure:
38 >
39 > rc-update del NetworkManager ... rc-update del xdm reboot
40 >
41 > When you are in your console, try connecting to a WEP access point
42 > by hand:
43 >
44 > ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID key MYPASSWORD
45 > channel MYCHANNEL dhclient/dhcpcd wlan0
46 >
47 > If it works, then is something related to NetworkManager.
48 >
49 > If it doesn't, I can't really thing of anything else at the
50 > moment.
51 >
52 > Regards, and good luck.
53
54 Doesn't seem NetworkManagerrelated - he/she said, that it isn't
55 working with wicd either.
56 The logs indicate that rfkill disables the device only a few seconds
57 after each activation.
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Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>