As reported earlier, since the Nightmare on Slackware Street upgrades NetworkManager does not work. It reports there is no connection, wired or wireless. I've tried several times, every day, sometimes a few times a day, every time wicd stalls.
Over the last year and a half, on two different boxes, in two different locations, I've tried wicd without much success. Now that NetworkManager no longer works, I'm forced to use, ugh, wicd, and its behavior has not changed. It appears to work fine, the first time after a boot up, and then I disconnect and do other things. The next time I try to us wicd it reports there are no networks available. As I've said before, at any given moment, 24/7, in this urban area there are 15-20 wireless networks, two of which I have access to, and one of them, the router is in line of site across the room, about 12 feet away. When wicd reports there are no networks available I've tried ifconfig, ifconfig -a, ifconfig wlan0, ifconfig wlan0 up, etc. and nothing refreshes the connection. The only things that works is rebooting the machine. There has to be a better way? Any suggestions greatly appreciate. How to fix Networkmanager would be even better. It ran perfectly until this last batch of "upgrades." Thanks. :hattip: |
You can always setup /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and add in any protected networks you wish to access in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. That's always worked for me, and just about every distribution I've used has some way of connecting to the internet wirelessly without the use of NetworkManager or wicd.
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I'd be curious if you could reproduce the issue on a fresh installation. |
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At least one other person has reported trouble with NetworkManager in Xfce 4.10. His solution was to install the latest kernel (3.4.6). I haven't been able to make it work in either Xfce 4.10 or KDE 4.8.4. One person has reported trouble with wicd. I was so tired the other night, actually morning by that time, I said, "screw it" and copied my personal files over to the Xp partition. That lasted about 10 minutes before I delete them and booted back to Slackware64. :) |
I've been trying to upgrade to current from a fresh install of Slack64 under VirtualBox on my XP host with slackpkg, but I'm not getting anywhere.
I set my mirror to osuosl, change slackconfig to DOWNLOAD=on, and install-new fails with gpg errors. I haven't witnessed at what point the failure occurs (I issue the command, wait for the list of packages to be built, and watch the packages start downloading -- then I'm off to do some other dumb stuff I gotta do -- when I return, I'm greeted with a long list of packages that have failed gpg check. When I try to run upgrade-all or rerun install-new, I get the message that the gpg key needs to be updated. I run update-gpg and then try to run upgrade-all or rerun install new and I get the "you need to update-gpg" message again. Whats going on? |
Slackware 14 beta is out !
I am downloading it right now and plan to install it from scratch.
According to the changelog, some of the problems reported here or elsewhere should automagically disappear, so go test it ;) EDIT Running Slackware 14 beta/xfce 4.10. So far, so good: - mount and df show the "real" device for /, no more /dev/root, with huge as well as generic kernels - no more booting problem after "mkinitrd -c -k 3.2.23-smp -m ext4" - wicd works for wired and wireless connections - no more duplicated udev rules for wired/wireless interfaces - "terminal" doesn't eat more CPU than it should anymore Congrats to Pat and the Slackware team ! |
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On a clean 32bit current installation, without e/,f/,kde/,kdei/,t/,tcl/ and y/ but everything else installed, i seem to be having trouble with NM and nm-applet as well.
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** (nm-applet:1957): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (32) No session found for uid 1000 Here's a thread that offers some possible solutions: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1125153 edit: It seems to be related to dbus cause when i plug in eth0 i get this: Code:
** (nm-applet:1957): WARNING **: async_got_type: could not read properties for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/0: Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.13" (uid=1000 pid=1957 comm="nm-applet ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManager: (uid=0 pid=1819 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ") edit3: i found the solution. starting XFCE as user with startxfce4 makes nm-applet not work. What i did was copy over the /root/.xinitrc file to my users home and use startx instead. |
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sorry for the question, maybe I am missing something: is there a particular reason why the xinitrc for xfce doesn't has at the top the usual
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I don't know if anybody else's updates worked this way, but when upgrading a current system to the latest, I have to set the download everything first in slackpkg to keep from breaking while upgrading. However with a fresh install of slack13.37 and upgrading to current using slackpkg the upgrade ran smoothly by doing slackpkg upgrade-all first then running install-new second, without having to set the download everything option. Haven't really had a chance to play with the upgraded systems yet.
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