-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat <p...@xvalheru.org> wrote: [ > Humongous snip ] > >> Still the same :-| > > Seems really weird. I can only think the following options: > > 1. Something is messing up with NetworkManager. > > 1.a. Can be possible that the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts are > running alongside NetworkManager? I don't use OpenRC (I moved to > systemd), but I clearly remember that for NetworkManager to run OK > in Gentoo you had to disable the net.* services in /etc/rc.conf: > > rc_hotplug="!net.*" > > 1.b. Maybe something is wrong with your > NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant installation; try deleting (after > making a backup, of course) the following directories/files: > > /etc/NetworkManager /etc/wpa_supplicant /etc/conf.d/net > > and then emerge again both packages: > > emerge -1v networkmanger wpa_supplicant > > And try again after a reboot. > > 2. Maybe (for some weird reason) NetworkManager refuses to work in > your system. If this is the case, disable all your network > services (avahi*, cups, NetworkManager, net.*), and boot to a > console. When I'm dealing with this kind of stuff, I even disable > X, just to be sure: > > rc-update del NetworkManager ... rc-update del xdm reboot > > When you are in your console, try connecting to a WEP access point > by hand: > > ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID key MYPASSWORD > channel MYCHANNEL dhclient/dhcpcd wlan0 > > If it works, then is something related to NetworkManager. > > If it doesn't, I can't really thing of anything else at the > moment. > > Regards, and good luck.
Doesn't seem NetworkManagerrelated - he/she said, that it isn't working with wicd either. The logs indicate that rfkill disables the device only a few seconds after each activation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPKxdGAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcg34H/1MqjZgKcbt4LGM+DQzhNrpz F1SlUJNULy1q+9C+ttL5nNDTXbLbC65D87TlIg6yT9Hs4CaiDKre2Ag6uKfGhqWl EmYiUEpR2LYYLIobzkAmcW6vMXotTCPBRcR87hCKdC3hb0QBJ2qcq/pP5n+wIK7p DpE92qY53hruO2HEeVbVM2kDQAbgOejMoO7Ut+V1ZKZEQf8GSIBgayAcaFAfRCDc ipMvCwo8suGi5kdI4hhozYe3pJj5JOpn8YvHNFTbiuWoTzmMs8UHQ0EmVDDXksVI iGmQPvy+D2gZU7Of9LbhbfNYZJGMHf0ytBr6Mra0uC/zUDFPtEtaP8ue9t1kfLg= =RagP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----