On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > -----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.
Which *could* (I believe) be caused by the /etc/init.d/net.* scripts running in parallel to both NM and wicd. I don't know wicd (haven't used), but it *could* be a problem with NM. It's just an idea. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
