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    • Sabayon: after 62 updates…

    Last 3 weeks i didn’t have too much time to play with Linux so, i didn’t even boot in Sabayon. A few days ago i finally decided to do it and make the touchscreen to work. The first thing i saw: 62 new updates.
    Well, update then :)

    Not a good idea. In fact, when i play with distro’s like Sabayon which include the latest packages i always expect something to go wrong after a big update. This time wasn’t different.

    Next step, Wacom driver (tutorial will come soon). Super, working from first attempt.

    After the first reboot (i wanted to see if everything works fine), my wireless stopped working. Somehow strange. I couldn’t connect to my wireless router but i was able to connect to other routers.

    I decided to reinstall the wireless driver (using wired connection):

    equo remove broadcom-sta
equo install broadcom-sta

    Bingo!!! I asked for a new driver not a new kernel but as i like new things, i take the kernel too. Download, install, everything went fine.

    Reboot… noo, not again!!!
    Complete hang up this time.

    Reboot in safe mode, check the logs, X didn’t start because of the ati driver was missing (of course, new kernel).

    equo install ati-driver

    Recompile && install Wacom driver, reboot … super, i have X now!

    Wireless? I’m not that lucky.
    The same problem like before.

    Digging on forums i (finally) found the problem: some NetworkManager bugs.
    Solution?

    Wicd.

    equo install wicd
equo remove nm-applet
rc-update del NetworkManager default
rc-update add wicd default
reboot

    After reboot, wicd-client did a great job.
    I have wireless now but not enough time to write the Wacom (touchscreen stylus and eraser) tutorial. For this one you will have to come back in a few days.

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    Posted: February 5th, 2009
    at 10:37am by Catalin C.

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    Categories: Linux

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    1. I stopped using NetworkManager entirely and just added /etc/init.d/net.eth1 to my boot using rc-update. This works find as long as wpa_supplicant isn’t acting up.

      Chad

      15 Feb 09 at 8:37 PM

       


     

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