Re: [gentoo-user] networkmanager stopped working after upgrade

[Pupino <pupinux@gmail.com>]

2009/7/7 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:58:23 +0000, Pupino wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody, i've made a system upgrade and networkmanager stopped
>> working (or at least i think that's the problem). I use wicd to
>> connect to my wireless ap and now it hangs on telling "validating
>> authentication". The packages involved in the upgrade that might be
>> responsible (imho) are: networkmanager, dbus and policykit.
>
> Wicd is a replacement for networkmanager, you shouldn't be trying to run
> both at the same time.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
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>

Good to know, i tought wicd was just a gui to networkmanager, just
like nm-applet or knetworkmanager.
Understood that i got rid of NM and messed a bit with wicd and after
deleting the config files and reconfiguring all, now it's working.
Thanks for the help Neil.