On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, after having plenty of trouble working on getting Gentoo set up to > work with my new laptop, I'm finally able to run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' > and see the 15 or so cells in immediate area. > > Rather than going straight wpa_supplicant or using NetworkManager on > this machine, I thought I'd give wicd a try. Trouble is, wicd, for > whatever reason, isn't seeing any any of the cells. If I run "wicd-cli > --wireless -l", I get a list's headers, but no observed networks. If I > run "wicd-cli --wireless -S", I get no output at all. > > The page on gentoo-wiki.com for wicd[1] talks about a few > configuration files for manual configuration, but those aren't present > on the filesystem, and there are no manpages for them. > > > [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd#Manual_Configuration > -- > As far I can remeber, I just removed net.ethX from /etc/init.d and ran rc-confg add wicd boot. Inside wicd preference I set wlan0 and eth0 as my network interfaces. :wq > >