Hello Russ, On Sat, 22 May 2010 16:33:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> [..] > I can confirm that this does appear to be related to wicd, although I'm > not sure why. I've been experiencing some oddities with getting the > wireless network to initialize properly on my laptop for a while and was > writing them off to my old base station, but not only does stopping wicd > solve the problem that I experienced here, it makes those other problems > go away as well (or at least significantly reduces them). > > For some reason, concurrent boot exacerbates the problem. > > My best hypothesis is that wicd is somehow grabbing the wireless device > and preventing dhclient from doing what it was supposed to do, but I'm not > sure. Could this be related to #582817 ? Are you using some /etc/dhclient.conf? If yes, wicd (from 1.7) overwrites it with a custom template file. Could you try editing /etc/wicd/dhclient.conf.template ? > [..] > I don't have access to that system right at the moment and can't easily > provide the additional information you asked for, but I hopefully will be > able to get that to you in the next week. Also, if the above doesn't work, would you please post /var/log/wicd/wicd.log , after enabling debugging mode? Thank you, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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