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
