On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, <[email protected]> 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. >
release more than a year and a half ago != dead the code the user has still works whether the devs adds upstream commits or not. It hasn't bit-rooted, is not incompatible with everything else and doesn't have outstanding security bugs with little chance of being fixed. So what's the problem? By that logic, zenity needs to have died 5 years ago but it's still around -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
