Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD

[Albert Hopkins]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to
> work properly under Gentoo?  When I attempt to use either of those
> utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay
> connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time.
> Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for
> nm/wicd to hop right back on.  However, if I manually configure
> wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script
> directly, I don't have any such problems.
>
> Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like
> known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually
> interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password.
>
> What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me
> connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to
> edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem
> to be the most popular.  Any other suggestions would also be welcome.

Have you checked your logs?  I know NM spews copious amounts of logging
data.  

I use NM with wireless, WPA/2 and also the openvpn and vpnc plugins.  I
don't have the problem you're experiencing, but whenever there is a
problems I can usually deduce it from syslog.

-a