On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:05 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 > >
> well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that > integrates with gnome that allows you to switch network connections on > the fly? or just something that monitors wireless connections and allows > you to choose to connect to them? something that actually asked for the > WEP key when it hit an encrypted network would be good too, but i think > im pushing my luck. thats for the info thus far. Network Manager is a program that integrates between DBUS/HAL and the system to create a sort of a 'connection Manager" for Linux. It's largely gnome based and IIRC, it's hacked by Robert Love http://www.rlove.org/ and should be a part of Project Utopia (The mantra of which is "It Just Works") In the gentoo world, we also have a Project Utopia, namely Project Gentopia. Project Gentopia is the brainchild of Gentoo Doug Goldstein. He's been hosting a portage overlay on his site https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/svn/overlay in which there are more than one gentoo dev working on the ebuilds. You can do a sync with it through subversion. There are instructions on the site. I am a (heavy?) user of his portage tree which makes things "just works" on my laptop. (though I have to admit that I can't make NetworkManager work as yet, most likely it's me not wanting to break dhcpcd and emerge dhcdbd (http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/dhcdbd - link broken for some reason but the download is at http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/dhcdbd/dhcdbd-1.6.tar.gz ) which is : [quote] DHCP D-BUS daemon (dhcdbd) controls dhclient sessions with D-BUS, stores and presents DHCP options. [/quote] Each time I start NetworkManager, I noticed that it will disconnect all my sessions and start it's own dhcpclient. I've not had time to test it out fully. Perhaps one day, I will feel up to it to write a whole article about Project Utopia/Gentopia for the MyOSS Magazine (http://mag.my-opensource.org) ps : Yeah.. the last bit was a plug. Edition 5 is up if anyone's interested. And BTW, we need contributors. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:55:09 up 11:54, 5 users, load average: 0.71, 1.11, 2.30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
