On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:58 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.
I have no solution, but just a "me too" that wicd-based networking stopped working entirely after I emerged some updates a couple days ago. My short-term "solution" was just stop wicd and use the old-style net init script instead since I haven't had time to research any this weekend yet.