No network connection XFCE

[birdman]

I installed Sabayon XFCE on my T42 ThinkPad last December. It has been very reliable. However I turned it on today and do not have any network connections. I normally use wireless but have also plugged in a cable. I have used 'ifconfig' and tried bringing up the network from there with no luck. I have tried rebooting using kernel 3.1 rather than the current 3.2 but that made no difference. I have booted using an Ubuntu live distro and the hardware is working fine (hence letting me communicate with you now). What steps should I take to reactivate my network connection? I have looked in the messages log after trying to activate using ifconfig and the kernel message just says that the network card is not ready?

[kwacorn]

Sounds like you may have the same or similar problem as here:
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=27069
I too lost wireless connection on the last Sabayon-weekly update of the 29th April.
The problem has been fixed apparently for the next update of 6th May.
Others may give a more informed reply.

[birdman]

Thanks kwacorn that all makes sense. I don't fire up the laptop that often and will have picked up that last update and not booted up again until yesterday. The question now is how I apply the fix without a network? I associate Network Manager with Gnome. It isn't visible with XFCE. Is there a specific package that I can download from my desktop (that doesn't run Sabayon) and put on to a USB drive for transfer?

Alan

[gstrock]

I was bit by this bug too. That is a good question, how do you fix your network connection without a network.
Here's what I did. I keep a copy of the latest Sabayon ISO on my system, just for things like this. About 2 weeks
ago after I upgraded, python2.3 was wiped off my system. I was able to copy python from the ISO. I did the same thing with NetworkManager.
> mkdir /mnt/livecd
> mkdir /mnt/sabayon
> mount ~/Downloads/Sabayon8.iso /mnt/livecd -o loop=/dev/loop0
> mount /mnt/livecd/livecd.squash /mnt/sabayon -o loop=/dev/loop1
> cp /mnt/sabayon/usr/sbin/NetworkManager /usr/sbin
> reboot

The mount is a 2 step process. First you mount the ISO. That gives you
access to the contents of the ISO image. Then you mount the livecd.squash,
which is a squashfs filesystem.

I'm at work right now, so I think the path to NetworkManager is in /usr/sbin.

I find it a good idea to keep the Sabayon ISO handy.

[LCN_UsesSabayon]

Thanks kwacorn that all makes sense. I don't fire up the laptop that often and will have picked up that last update and not booted up again until yesterday. The question now is how I apply the fix without a network? I associate Network Manager with Gnome. It isn't visible with XFCE. Is there a specific package that I can download from my desktop (that doesn't run Sabayon) and put on to a USB drive for transfer?
Alan

Is your laptop usually connected to your home network via Wifi (I guess using WPA2)?
You could perform this following from terminal in XFCE:
1.stopping NetworkManager => /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
2.starting wpa_supplicant => /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
3.waiting few seconds
4.running dhcpcd

You should be connected... I performed this scenario in order to be able to upgrade my system last tuesday

[birdman]

Thanks for the tips. I will not have time to look at this until the weekend but at least I now have a plan on how to get things working.

[birdman]

I do not have /usr/bin/NetworkManager Both suggested solutions depend on it. The network appears to be controled from scripts in /etc/rc.d/ Not sure what to do?