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 1Rt8AF-0000KR-QQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:42:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 490D3E0586; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA95E0586 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbdu6 with SMTP id u6so3735788pbd.40 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:40:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7tnX96UU+bbxT+qIthKYPGMWQee1uqLxNIHFC9n5TfQ=; b=GUGY+/8yn9RI/ZI9fDyaFsZ/jUMw3X9mVJd/zRhmxAqt1R9HZxv5+BKRbXF56hO5cN wGCCc4q5Dmp1iGrIMWTrADxwlybtCrRt9yuZOiXZwZJ8TYJZnKztgYQjxZIkGSmEi9Ci NgQeyfPVTJXEh1gQm7ExRfcnbKn48SE3xCSfM= 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 10.68.74.230 with SMTP id x6mr12791937pbv.49.1328233258682; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.2.7 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:40:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F2B1746.2080401@fu-berlin.de> References: <20120128111152.M70971@xvalheru.org> <20120128125217.M89623@xvalheru.org> <201201281908.26945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20120128202917.M63420@xvalheru.org> <20120128205939.M24806@xvalheru.org> <20120129093135.M65125@xvalheru.org> <20120131232602.M91268@xvalheru.org> <4F28F4D2.1020907@fu-berlin.de> <20120201202406.M59765@xvalheru.org> <4F29BD12.6020300@fu-berlin.de> <20120202091615.M83553@xvalheru.org> <4F2A5DEB.20307@fu-berlin.de> <20120202102759.M76549@xvalheru.org> <20120202164457.M86014@xvalheru.org> <4F2B1746.2080401@fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:40:58 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3466d8e9-58b7-416c-9e85-fc4c2c337e81 X-Archives-Hash: bbb6a03e2e672e96a3246678d110c0a2 On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02.02.2012 23:03, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, pat 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=3D"!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. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico