reopen 525893 retitle 525893 please improve wired/wireless hardware detection severity 525893 minor thanks
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:39 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Paleino <d.pale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Try to leave the fields blank, and see what gets autodetected. If it fails, > > then there's a bug. Reading the whole report, there is currently none :-) > > If I blank out wired and wireless (what I actually did was shut the > daemon down, then delete the "wired_interface = " and > "wireless_interface = " lines in /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf) and > start the daemon again, it detects wlan0 as a wired interface *only*. > Despite this, it somehow manages to associate it with the local wifi > hub correctly (or perhaps that's just that the kernel remembered the > appropriate BSSID and WPA settings). 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: automatically detected wired interface wlan0 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: did not find wired_interface in configuration, setting default wlan0 2009/06/23 13:53:33 :: setting wired interface wlan0 Ok, this is because you don't have /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless/, do you? So, here we have the bug. "Please improve wired/wireless hardware detection". Retitled and severity set accordingly. In the meanwhile, please stick with setting those explicitly in the Preferences dialog. Thank you, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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