[Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:22:41 +0400, Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have successfully set up wpa2 wireless network using wicd, but it was not
> that easy. The problem is that dhclient doesn't ignore wlan0 interface by
> default and wicd doesn't take this fact into account correctly. With just
> 
>   networking = {
>     wicd.enable = true;
>     # useDHCP is true by default
>   };
> 
> I would get both wicd and dhclient managing wlan0 interface (well, wicd
> didn't detect wireless interface originally, that was me who typed 'wlan0'
> into it's gui settings dialog). The worst thing here is the fact that as a
> result, wicd logs completly wrong 'bad password' errors. Probably, one
> should do something to prevent this situation, maybe one of the following:
> - prevent (wicd.enable == true && useDHCP == true) condition
> - add wireless interfaces like wlan0 to the dhclien's list of ignored
> interfaces in /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/services/networking/dhclient.nix
> I will be glad to try myself in fixing it. At least, should I add a wiki
> article describing the problem and solution as is?

That would be great!

> Also I've added firmware iwlwifi-5150-ucode staff, using iwlwifi-5000-ucode
> as an example. Should I share a git-style patch via email?

I'd be happy to commit that for you.

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