Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher > <newsspam <at> weilbacher.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a > > laptop. It all started with a big sync & world update that gave me new > > udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17, > > openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are > > that I cannot even get wired _listed_ in wicd, and when connecting to > > various different wireless routers, the connection died quickly. The e1000e > > driver (for wired) apparently never detects when a cable is connected, and > > when trying it through /etc/init.d/net.eth0, dhcpcd times out when waiting > > for a carrier... I tried alternating kernels (tuxonice- and gentoo-sources, > > both older and new ones between 2.3.38-r1 and 3.2.1) and kernel > > configurations as well as downgrades of several suspect packages, without > > success. > > > > Does that ring a bell with someone? Any advice how I can track down these > > problems? > > There was a thread a while back about wicd quit working. The solution > then was to edit /etc/wicd/manager-settings.conf and change the > backend from "external" to "ioctl".
Yes, I had seen that. Of course that doesn't help with my problem, since I cannot connect wired even when bypassing wicd. I was hoping for some hints which packages might be involved with finding a wired connection. The kernel certainly, maybe udev, openrc (when using /etc/init.d/net.eth0), but which others? And how can I reconfigure those to let me debug what's going on? Cheers, Peter.
