From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recent networking problems
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:21:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2PHz72TWQQCzH9xWMS3cHVYbZaQB-LdWE8Bn9uCPu2zcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0629a23918d8cbddede4c1412da77fd1@weilbacher.org>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher
<newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a
> laptop. It all started with a big sync & world update that gave me new
> udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17,
> openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are
> that I cannot even get wired _listed_ in wicd, and when connecting to
> various different wireless routers, the connection died quickly. The e1000e
> driver (for wired) apparently never detects when a cable is connected, and
> when trying it through /etc/init.d/net.eth0, dhcpcd times out when waiting
> for a carrier... I tried alternating kernels (tuxonice- and gentoo-sources,
> both older and new ones between 2.3.38-r1 and 3.2.1) and kernel
> configurations as well as downgrades of several suspect packages, without
> success.
>
> Does that ring a bell with someone? Any advice how I can track down these
> problems?
There was a thread a while back about wicd quit working. The solution
then was to edit /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf and change the
backend from "external" to "ioctl".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-15 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-15 9:32 [gentoo-user] Recent networking problems Peter Weilbacher
2012-02-15 15:21 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-02-22 8:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Weilbacher
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