On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dan Johansson squawked:
> > Yes, that was it, killing the dhcpcd made it possible to bring the
> > interface up and associate with the AP.
> > As openrc was one of the packages upgraded yesterday (0.9.8.4 -> 0.9.9.1) I
> > assume (guess) that is why dhcpcd gets started at boot.
> > Now I just have to figure out a way to stop this from happening.
>
> The problems seems to be that dhcpcd was started automatically as soon as a
> service needed "the network" - in my case dhcpcd was started due to
> /etc/init.d/sshd.
> At the moment I have solved it with putting "rc_dhcpcd_provide="!net"" in
> /etc/rc.conf
> which prevents dhcpcd to start when sshd is started and wicd can now do it's
> magic.
>
I wonder if it would be advisable to file a bug to have wicd provide
net? (Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea?)
Cheers,
W
--
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
