"wireless carrier lost" -> complete network shutdown

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

Let us know if you get things working by disabling wicd.

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:40 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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