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.
