Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for nm/wicd to hop right back on. However, if I manually configure wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script directly, I don't have any such problems.
Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password. What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem to be the most popular. Any other suggestions would also be welcome. --Mike
