[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

["pat" <pat@xvalheru.org>]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:40:58 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
> <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> > On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat <pat@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
> 

Hello,

Thanks for your patience and help. When I started this thread I've newly used
gcc 4.5.3 (rebuild full gentoo installation). This failed. I've moved bask to
previous gcc version (4.4.5) and wireless start working (except
NetworkManager, but wicd is fine). So, I've decided to check if the problem
was the gcc 4.5.3 and recompiled whole gentoo installation to this gcc again.
But to my surprise it works. So, only issue right now is the NetworkManager,
but I can live with that :-) Bad thing is that I don't know what the hell was
wrong.

Thanks for your help

     Pat

P.S And I'm "he" :-)

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