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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen |
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<h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat <pat@××××××××.org> wrote: [ |
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>> Humongous snip ] |
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>>> Still the same :-| |
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>> Seems really weird. I can only think the following options: |
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>> 1. Something is messing up with NetworkManager. |
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>> 1.a. Can be possible that the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts are |
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>> running alongside NetworkManager? I don't use OpenRC (I moved to |
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>> systemd), but I clearly remember that for NetworkManager to run OK |
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>> in Gentoo you had to disable the net.* services in /etc/rc.conf: |
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>> rc_hotplug="!net.*" |
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>> 1.b. Maybe something is wrong with your |
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>> NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant installation; try deleting (after |
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>> making a backup, of course) the following directories/files: |
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>> /etc/NetworkManager /etc/wpa_supplicant /etc/conf.d/net |
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>> and then emerge again both packages: |
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>> emerge -1v networkmanger wpa_supplicant |
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>> And try again after a reboot. |
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>> 2. Maybe (for some weird reason) NetworkManager refuses to work in |
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>> your system. If this is the case, disable all your network |
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>> services (avahi*, cups, NetworkManager, net.*), and boot to a |
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>> console. When I'm dealing with this kind of stuff, I even disable |
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>> X, just to be sure: |
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>> rc-update del NetworkManager ... rc-update del xdm reboot |
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>> When you are in your console, try connecting to a WEP access point |
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>> by hand: |
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>> ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID key MYPASSWORD |
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>> channel MYCHANNEL dhclient/dhcpcd wlan0 |
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>> If it works, then is something related to NetworkManager. |
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>> If it doesn't, I can't really thing of anything else at the |
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>> moment. |
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>> Regards, and good luck. |
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> Doesn't seem NetworkManagerrelated - he/she said, that it isn't |
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> working with wicd either. |
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> The logs indicate that rfkill disables the device only a few seconds |
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> after each activation. |
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Which *could* (I believe) be caused by the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts |
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running in parallel to both NM and wicd. I don't know wicd (haven't |
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used), but it *could* be a problem with NM. |
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It's just an idea. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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