"wireless carrier lost" -> complete network shutdown

[William Park]

Thanks for prompt reply.  Slackware does security updates, but it
doesn't do updates just because version number got changed.  So, yes,
KDE is 4.4.3.

I don't know how "wicd" got installed on my system.  I didn't know what
it was until recently.  It seems that it showed up as Slackware package
around May 2012.  Before that, Slackware didn't have any network
manager, because I remember I had to configure "wpa_supplicant" manually
so that "dhcpcd" can connect to and get IP from the wireless router.

I'll try disabling "wicd".

Newer Slackware (soon to be released) will be better at this, I'm sure.
-- 
William

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:56:50PM -0300, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
> When you say "I'm running Slackware-13.1 (about 2 years old) which
> came with KDE-4.4.3.", you mean the OS still the same? Without
> updates? Still with kde 4.4.3 and all the rest?
> 
> For KDE, wicd is really better than network-manager, in my opinion.
> 
> I would suggest you to remove your WPA2 protection, just for a single
> test and see if the same problem happens. Also, you could work as
> usual but running "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see what's going on
> when your interfaces get killed.
> 
> If you say you don't remember about having wicd installed, perhaps you
> have some kind of cinflict between network manager and wicd, but I'm
> not sure about that.
> 
> You need to check about this? Do you have network manager installed
> too?
> 
> Could you check the running services? wicd is running? networkmanager
> is stoped?
> 
> ===================================================
> Marcelo Cavalcante Rocha - Kalib
> ===================================================
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:49 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 07:17:11AM -0300, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
> > > I saw a fea people with a similar problem, but I'm not sure if
> > > it's really the same situation, so let me ask you:
> > >
> > > 1- You have the same problem everywhere? I mean, on different
> > > places with different APs?
> >
> > It's home machine, so it connects to only that router (D-Link
> > DIR-655).
> >
> > > 2- What are you using to manage your network connections? netcfg,
> > > networkmanager, wicd, ...?
> >
> > I'm running Slackware-13.1 (about 2 years old) which came with
> > KDE-4.4.3.  I notice now that "wicd" is running.  Strange, because
> > I'm pretty sure "wicd" wasn't part of original Slackware.
> >
> > > 3- If the answer for the first question is that you're having this
> > > trouble with only one connection (AP), is this one using WEP, WPA,
> > > WPA2.. ?
> >
> > It's using WPA2.
> > --
> > William
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