On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> In the last day or two wicd broke badly due to a net-tools upgrade. >> >> The recommended workarounds are to specify USE=old-output >> for net-tools or to downgrade net-tools one version (I am ~amd64). >> >> Neither of these have helped me. Wicd cannot start either the >> wired or wireless interface. >> >> When I type >> killall dhcpd; dhcpd >> >> Both networks come up but the wireless gets many errors (as reported >> by ifconfig). Also sometimes the network goes down again. >> >> Two days ago both networks were solid. >> >> Another machine that I was in the process of bringing up (gentoo fully >> installed from the handbook, but many utilities not yet done) also fails >> under wicd today (worked fine two days ago). For this machine >> killall dhcp; dhcp >> reports that "no interfaces have a carrier" >> The machine is 10 feet from the router/wap (linksys) and again >> all was well 2 days ago. >> >> Help would be very much appreciated. >> >> thanks, >> allan >> >> PS I couldn't connect yesterday and today, the new gnome (3.2) hit >> testing. Since I don't want to bite that big, potentially disruptive >> update with this network problem (the overlay version failed for me), I >> have not done an update world for 2 or 3 days. >> >> > > Not to be too glib but isn't this sort of problem exactly what the > whole stable vs ~amd64 decision is really all about? > > Anyway, my machines are stable with a few ~amd64 entries in > package.keywords. I don't keyword either of these packages and I have > wicd-1.7.1_beta2-r4 & net-tools-1.60_p20110409135728 on my laptop. > Both wireless & wired come up fine here. > > I have dhcpd on the machine but I don't run it. > > Not exactly sure how any of that will help you but I'm fully up to > date as of today and everything seems to be working fine. > > - Mark
Right. I am running testing. But so are many on this list and I believe many of those use wicd. I was hoping someone would have solved this same problem. allan
