Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.2.4-4.1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
I installed a new kernel and WiFi stopped working. It turns out that the wireless extensions interface used by wireless-tools is scheduled for deprecation and its use is dicouraged which is the reson it does not appear in new kernel configs. wpa_supplicant can use the netlink interface according to the documentation but wicd itself cannot. It would be nice to replace the calls to wireless-tools with calls to wi and/or the wext ioctl calls with netlink interface. Thanks Michal -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (510, 'unstable'), (505, 'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-rc3-00196-gfd43cc9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages wicd-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dbus 1.8.16-1 ii debconf 1.5.56 ii iproute 1:3.16.0-2 ii iputils-ping 3:20121221-5+b2 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.3.1-6 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii net-tools 1.60-26+b1 ii psmisc 22.21-2 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-dbus 1.2.0-2+b3 ii python-gobject 3.14.0-1 ii python-wicd 1.7.2.4-4.1 ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-8 ii wpasupplicant 2.3-1+deb8u1 Versions of packages wicd-daemon recommends: ii rfkill 0.5-1 ii wicd-curses [wicd-client] 1.7.2.4-4.1 Versions of packages wicd-daemon suggests: ii pm-utils 1.4.1-15 Versions of packages wicd-curses depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-urwid 1.2.1-2+b1 Versions of packages wicd-curses recommends: ii sudo 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2 Versions of packages python-wicd depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
