On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to > work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those > utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay > connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. > Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for > nm/wicd to hop right back on. However, if I manually configure > wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script > directly, I don't have any such problems. > > Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like > known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually > interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password. > > What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me > connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to > edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem > to be the most popular. Any other suggestions would also be welcome.
Have you checked your logs? I know NM spews copious amounts of logging data. I use NM with wireless, WPA/2 and also the openvpn and vpnc plugins. I don't have the problem you're experiencing, but whenever there is a problems I can usually deduce it from syslog. -a
