Network-Manager and dhcp package

sepp · Guru Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 330

this is no bug report but a thread to prevent people running into the same problems as I did.
Don't emerge dhcp > 3.0.3-r9 if you run NetworkManager! at least for me it broke wireless networking completely. I got the new 3.1 version because I had dhcp in /etc/portage/package.keywords

MrJ412 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS

Thanks ... I have been fighting networkmanager on a fresh install all afternoon with this issue. Masking 3.1.0 and installing an older version worked for me.

jlward4th · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 83

Wow! Thanks for posting this. I've been struggling with NetworkManager for a few weeks now and didn't know why it wasn't working. Switching back to dhcp-3.0.3-r9 fixed the problem for me.

estel · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that

. I was wondering why the network suddenly died.
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PaulW21781 · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 15

Same here! Cheers for the fix

Added >=net-misc/dhcp-3.0.6 to my /etc/portage/package.mask and its all working again now

jstn · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 29 Location: boston, ma.

Cheers! I was having the same problem and this has fixed it.

Any idea what the complication is?
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ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

Maybe some API changes or similar. Hope those NetworkManager guys will take care of that.

Rei
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UberLord · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

The complication is that dhclient in dhcp-3.1 now supports the -x flag to shut it down nicely.

Previously, we added a patch that added the -x option to mean something totally different, which dhcdbd needs. As dhcdbd is supposedly going away, this shouldn't be a problem in the future.
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dustice · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 20

Thanks! I was just about to give up on NetworkManager.

Master_of_Puppets · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Austria

Thank you for that information! helped me a lot

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ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

any ideas on when we're able to remove it from the package.mask file?

Rei
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UberLord · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject:

Search bugs.gentoo.org for a bug regarding this
If you find one, add your email to the CC list so you know when it's updated, otherwise file a new bug

Most developers don't read the forums, and I personally don't care for NetworkManager, but I do care for dhcp-3.1 going stable soon.
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Tucker · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:45 am Post subject:

And again many, many thanks for this report!!

jdoe · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

works for me too adding reverting to 3.0.3-r9
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