[SOLVED]WICD and issues with D-bus???

[brent7890]

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First and foremost I will express my gratitude to the gentoo team for making possible this wonderful distribution available and with support to help users when they arrive at trouble.

As my title sort of indicates, I am clueless to the issues and struggling to access connectivity to the internet through WICD either wirelessly or wired.

Getting this far was rather difficult, and all of the steps I took I can hardly remember, but here I am, and at a problem that's taken me the longest. I do not seem to realize what the issue is, and it was only recently that I was able to emerge WICD successfully, I was having a problem with something about pybabel, it's not important any longer to get into.

I have tried wireless connectivity through network manager as well, and to no avail I must confess. In fact, the light to my wireless card is unresponsive entirely, at least with network manager I was able to get a scan of the networks in range, with WICD I get nothing. Now here's a debriefing on where I'm currently at:

I'm using ath5k wireless card correctly selected in the kernel and made. I compiled it as an asterisk, and as a module, either way, it seems to make little difference.

I've installed dhcp, wpa-supplicant, and WICD. WICD is set to load in rc-update at boot WITHOUT dhcpcd and wpa-supplicant. My output for ifconfig shows that I have many interfaces including eth0 and wlan0 to choose from, putting them up or down doesn't change anything. In the beginning I had wired connectivity, and now it has ceased to exist working.

I use x11 with KDE. When I startx and load into the gui, I get a message that says it couldn't connect to d-bus. I've seen similar messages before in distributions such as backtrack; usually it's not an issue. This time, I get more than just this simple message, here's the messages I get in order of sequence:

[Hypnos]

Easy things to try:

* Have wicd start at the default runlevel, not boot.

* Your wicd log is (probably) in /var/log/wicd.log -- what does it say?


Otherwise, let's make sure wireless networking works at all:

* If wireless works flawlessly from SysRescCd or some other Linux boot disk, then we know your card works properly with Linux.

* You should be able to connect to wireless from a text console with wpa_supplicant, using this guide. Make sure you disable any network management services (NetworkManager, wicd, etc.) before trying this.
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[brent7890]

Thanks for your response Hypnos, I look forward to working with you.

I am using the Live gentoo distribution, wireless works indeed. I have installed gentoo before, and have had wireless working in the past on this same system; I know it works.

As for the run level not being at /boot run level but instead default run level, I would like more info on that if you got any links. I'll google it and find the appropriate command. Finally, the most important piece of information,

Post of /var/log/wicd:

[brent7890]

It is strange because I do have dhcp emerged, and I do have wlan0 listed under my interfaces. It's hard to do anything because I have to chroot from live cd to do anything after I mount my drives, then I have to reboot and try it, and if it doesn't work, I have to once again come back to the live cd, I hope that doing it that way doesn't cause any discrepancies. I'll try again and compare the logs to see if it posts anything differently. Thanks again.
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[Hypnos]

* Moving wicd from boot runlevel to default runlevel:

[brent7890]

I did all the things you have suggested and am now rebooting. I will post what happens and if a failure results, I will post the error log for wicd again. Thank you.
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[brent7890]

Unfortunately, no go. Followed your directions and nothing has seemed to change. The output for /var/log/wicd is no different. Is there anything else you can think of? Perhaps it has to do with security? I really have no clue.
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[PabloEsc]

Could you please post the content of

[brent7890]

cat /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf

[Hypnos]

First of all, you should get manual networking working following the Gentoo networking guide so you don't have to keep rebooting.

Second, what behavior do you get from wicd when you're logged in as user, controlling it through the systray widget?

- Can it scan and see access points?
- When you try to connect, what precisely happens?

Third, does dmesg say anything interest?
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[brent7890]

I cannot even open the interface. It prompts me for the password for root, and after that, it gives me the error. The most I can do is right click the bottom tray where it comes up with 3 things, one is "connect" which says "scanning", another is something for networking information, and finally, quit. Even wicd-curses doesn't even open, it lists an error message. As root user, however, it stays open in wicd-curses if I don't open kde, but then it only says "scanning". That's all. Thanks again.
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[PabloEsc]

I'd check few things.
1. Sound silly but are you sure you have dbus running ?

[Hypnos]

[brent7890]

rc-update add dbus default

[Hypnos]

wicd should not depend on being in any special group -- that's why it asks for the root password.
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[PabloEsc]

Wicd depends on user being in users group but I don't think that's the case.
It doesn't harm to check it though.

[brent7890]

Would it help for me to post my make.conf? Is there anything else I can do that would help resolve this issue? Thank you for doing what you have done so far.
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[Hypnos]

Run wicd-curses as root in a console. If it works, then we know the issue is permissions problem.
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[brent7890]

I did as you asked. I'm afraid that nothing has changed.

wicd-curses

[ppurka]

Tip: In vim run :set paste and then paste your stuff.
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[Hypnos]

Your wicd daemon isn't running? My output of "ps awux | grep wicd" :

[khayyam]

[ppurka]

[brent7890]

I am unable to run the WICD daemon because it gets shut down, and I don't know why. Whenever I try I get the error messages and I don't really know why. I had network manager before WICD when I couldn't emerge it, and it would open, and I even saw the networks in range, but then, I could never connect. This one wont even start. Do you think my only option now is to start over fresh install? I'm beat, everything I try seems to do absolutely nothing. I will wait a while hoping you have something else, otherwise, I seem to have no other choice. If I don't hear anything, thanks to all of you for your assistance.
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[Hypnos]

What if you invoke "wicd" as root from a text console? What output do you get?
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