On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem > until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly. > The problem must have started sometime within the past month. > > If I have wicd started by systemd, i.e. > systemctl enable wicd > The wired network is started fine but not the wireless. Instead, I see > in the systemd journal > > wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wired error: No > such file or directory > wicd[290]: Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname: wireless error: No > such file or directory > > If I instead systemctl disable wicd, reboot, and then manually type > wpa_supplicant -i wireless -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B > it works. > > Indeed after I have booted I can start wicd and cannot get the error > above, but the actual behavior is not consistent. > > My system is ~amd64, profile gnome/systemd > > My wireless driver is from the package broadcom-sta (wl)
I have never used wicd, so I can't say exactly what it's the problem; but I was under the impression that wicd is basically dead. Its last release was more than a year and a half ago. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
