From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2309-0004el-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:00:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FDF9E0678; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F38E0417 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so723443yhj.40 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jamesbroadhead@gmail.com designates 10.60.25.65 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.60.25.65; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jamesbroadhead@gmail.com designates 10.60.25.65 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jamesbroadhead@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=jamesbroadhead@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.60.25.65]) by 10.60.25.65 with SMTP id a1mr6704980oeg.23.1330358359161 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:59:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=WzUtSVYSfagl1QlTz1hBJMN0OE6F3saYTrbxykafuD0=; b=ZkDeB2ggN9vNSE1JPc5ott0PIjg7aCFhN/8FEsZNlGPjIfz9AkSCn+Fd2fOcpMhJZ1 TZ0fBXEgQOARCoba9JyPAEGXIo2bn0qeI9X0NQZVjd8aiKqQr4g+4NlHk/kCfflaeLq9 lFJct9U7jc434N5QwYOwE3Qq6EqUAjnwzwilk= Received: by 10.60.25.65 with SMTP id a1mr5544975oeg.23.1330358359111; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:59:19 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.193.8 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:58:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1736449.Bb2Qhs9hKV@queen> References: <1756952.SDCPNmk9SO@queen> <20120226095258.GB3460@Gee-Mi-Ni> <1425538.Lr5IA8MAyZ@queen> <1736449.Bb2Qhs9hKV@queen> From: James Broadhead Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:58:59 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: cc763f12-e41b-4685-968f-a2ee60711f6e X-Archives-Hash: 3d6004d15778018b00346720a2a8a91f On 26 February 2012 17:00, Dan Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote: >> On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: >> > >> > You guys are almost certainly running into the same problem as the one >> > I mentioned in the thread I just started. >> > >> > Try `pkill dhcpcd` and associate again. >> > >> > Unfortunately I couldn't figure out why all of a sudden dhcpcd decides >> > to start on boot. >> >> Yes, that was it, killing the dhcpcd made it possible to bring the interface up and associate with the AP. >> As openrc was one of the packages upgraded yesterday (0.9.8.4 -> 0.9.9.1) I assume (guess) that is why dhcpcd gets started at boot. >> Now I just have to figure out a way to stop this from happening. > > The problems seems to be that dhcpcd was started automatically as soon as a service needed "the network" - in my case dhcpcd was started due to /etc/init.d/sshd. > At the moment I have solved it with putting "rc_dhcpcd_provide="!net"" in /etc/rc.conf > which prevents dhcpcd to start when sshd is started and wicd can now do it's magic. Ah, I could really have done with this thread earlier, but gmail had decided that it was spam :-/ What is strange is that it seems to work for some networks, but not for others, and I can't figure out how to predict on which dhcpd with succeed and on which it will not. I have access to three APs here (each with different SSIDs), and I can only connect to one of them; the other two have the dhcp failure. Very strange.