On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Fernando Antunes wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > >> So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to >> work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' >> and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area. >> >> Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using NetworkManager on >> this machine, I thought I'd give wicd a try. Trouble is, wicd, for >> whatever reason, isn't seeing any any of the cells. If I run "wicd-cli >> --wireless -l", I get a list's headers, but no observed networks. If I >> run "wicd-cli --wireless -S", I get no output at all. >> >> The page on gentoo-wiki.com for wicd[1] talks about a few >> configuration files for manual configuration, but those aren't present >> on the filesystem, and there are no manpages for them. >> >> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd#Manual_Configuration >> -- >> > > As far I can remeber, I just removed net.ethX from /etc/init.d and ran > rc-confg add wicd boot. > > Inside wicd preference I set wlan0 and eth0 as my network interfaces. > > My emerge packages that came with wicd : Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libnl-1.1-r2 USE="-doc" 283 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/notify-python-0.1.1-r1 210 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.2 USE="-doc -examples -test" 528 kB [ebuild N ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-r2 USE="dbus gnutls readline ssl -debug -eap-sim -fasteap -madwifi (-ps3) -qt4 -wimax -wps" 1,600 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/urwid-0.9.9.1 USE="-examples" 233 kB [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ktsuss-1.4 273 kB [ebuild N ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 USE="X gtk libnotify ncurses nls pm-utils (-i > > :wq >> >> >