On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Robin Atwood <robin@binro.org> wrote:

I originally posted this on gentoo-users but got no replies.
I have been playing with the solid command since various KCM modules don't
show anything. "solid-hardware list" shows no processor information and
"solid-network listdevices" just hangs. My processor and NIC are bog-standard
and should present no problems. The package is compiled with options (use
flags) disable-networkmanager, disable-wicd because the machine is
basically a server. Does solid actually need a network manager?

TIA
-Robin
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These sound like problems with HAL. Inspect the output of HAL (I think it's lshal) and see what it's reporting for your CPU. If you don't enable one of the two current network management backends (NM or WICD) then how do you expect to get functionality? You should be able to see the network devices using solid-hardware. If not inspect the output of HAL again to see if it's reporting anything.