Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 02:24:29 +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +0000 (UTC)
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
>> Not quite true, it seems. Now that I'm back at home, it connects to my
>> home wifi just fine. So it looks as if I have trouble only when I want
>> to connect to a different wifi than I connected to last time. This even
>> though before the upgrade it connected fine.
>>
>> And aptitude will now talk to remte package repositories, at least when
>> I'm at home.
>
> Hm, could be a DHCP lease file problem, close your connection then goto
> /var/lib/dhcp and rename dhclient_leases to dhclient_leases_OFF (I just
> done that, but it seems not to be used anymore by NM, give it a try
> anyway and see what's happening (w/ other networks that home)).
>
> As NM is often upgraded (in sid), so this can also be a bug; in this
> case, you should try (as root) to make new connections files into
> /etc/Network-Manager/system-connections and restart NM manually.
>
>> > Check the status of wpa-supplicant and test w/ another wifi wrapper
>> > (such as wifi-radar).
>>
>> uh. How do I check that status? And how do I test with wifi-radar.
>> What I'm using, as far as I know, is the network manager, that
>> apparently being the default for xfce.
>
> My wlan0 disappears when closing NM networking and I can't ifup it :(
> NM seems to preempt it (I see pieces of it into policykit:((
> Same shit that w/ systemd;(((
Is it likely to be a systemd problem? Would it help to uninstall gnome?
-- hedrik
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