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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. |
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> The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output |
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> for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64). |
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> Neither of these have helped me. Wicd cannot start either the |
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> wired or wireless interface. |
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> When I type |
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> killall dhcpd; dhcpd |
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> Both networks come up but the wireless gets many errors (as reported |
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> by ifconfig). Also sometimes the network goes down again. |
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> Two days ago both networks were solid. |
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> Another machine that I was in the process of bringing up (gentoo fully |
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> installed from the handbook, but many utilities not yet done) also fails |
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> under wicd today (worked fine two days ago). For this machine |
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> killall dhcp; dhcp |
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> reports that "no interfaces have a carrier" |
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> The machine is 10 feet from the router/wap (linksys) and again |
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> all was well 2 days ago. |
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> Help would be very much appreciated. |
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> thanks, |
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> allan |
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> PS I couldn't connect yesterday and today, the new gnome (3.2) hit |
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> testing. Since I don't want to bite that big, potentially disruptive |
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> update with this network problem (the overlay version failed for me), I |
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> have not done an update world for 2 or 3 days. |
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Not to be too glib but isn't this sort of problem exactly what the |
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whole stable vs ~amd64 decision is really all about? |
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Anyway, my machines are stable with a few ~amd64 entries in |
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package.keywords. I don't keyword either of these packages and I have |
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wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r4 & net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728 on my laptop. |
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Both wireless & wired come up fine here. |
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I have dhcpd on the machine but I don't run it. |
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Not exactly sure how any of that will help you but I'm fully up to |
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date as of today and everything seems to be working fine. |
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- Mark |