wireless connection

[Fitzcarraldo]

What WiFi controller is the OP using? What is the output of the following commands issued as root user in a Konsole window?

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lspci
lsusb
lsmod

If the OP is indeed using a BCM4312 WiFi controller as svantoviit wondered, then there is a possibility that the closed-source Broadcom module wl is the problem and that the open-source module b43 can be used instead. See the thread Dell lattitude D620 cant connect for details of what to do.

[frattale]

Hi Woodsman,

I have the same problem, but I doens't seem only a sabayon issue since I've found that also some arch and gentoo user are experiencing it.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24006
It looks like a problem with policykit configuration that has broken after the latest updated.
I hope that link will help you (it helped me, somehow).

Happy new year,
Fabio

P.S. Sabayon is a great distro: don't give up and it will reward you. Sometimes (quite often, actually) it may get broken and have these kind of issues, but the time you'll spend fixing them should give you opportunity to better understand how the system works.

Hello again; Thank you for the response ,i appreciate it. I have copied down the error message.
Without typing the entirety , it is in part
Error failed:Action org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.own is not registered.

My desktop is now telling me there are 66 updates available, this may have something to do with it.
I tried the code micia suggested, here i get "command not found" message. When i have access to a wired connection
again i will try to copy and paste it into the terminal.
I will also have to wait to do the remaining updates until i get back to the public library as well. A wired connection is
not an option for me at home.

To help clarify my situation, i am a patient man, i don't give up easily on any linux system as the problems are due in
large part to my own lack of experience and computer proficiency.
The fact that i have spent over a month waiting and trying to get a working sabayon system can attest to that.

From what i have seen of sabayon so far ,i like and will persevere to give it an honest trial, i do appreciate every offer
to help. This is not a case of whatever fits better though, rather if kubuntu connects to the internet and sabayon
doesn't, which one would you use?
Thanks again.

[Woodsman]

Thanks to all for the input here, as an update i have still not been able to get to a wired connection to get this sorted out,
due to work commitments, hopefully soon though.

[Johnny Who]

P.S. Sabayon is a great distro: don't give up and it will reward you. Sometimes (quite often, actually) it may get broken and have these kind of issues, but the time you'll spend fixing them should give you opportunity to better understand how the system works.

Well, that is really true. I came to sabayon from ubuntu 5 months ago, in order to have something more "geeky" installed. I was flirting with gentoo for some weeks, but I decided to go for sabayon. It has definitely rewarded my, and it is definitely not a "newby distro", as many people say... I came here without knowing what a mountpoint is, and now i find managing raid arrays trivial, I can work with portage, I have installed gentoo on virtualbox without pain and I know my stuff on kernel and system architectures. How `s that.

P.S.: Do not take this as a troll, it is quite off-topic but I had to write it...

[Johnny Who]

Also, this code has to be run as root. Use su and then type the root password.