On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:16:23AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> [130715 15:09]: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > unmerge nm and everything associated with it. > > > Comment out all lines in /etc/conf.d/net > > > > > > emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice. > > > > > > All your problems will instantly go away, stay away, and wicd will do > > > the right thing always for networking. I promise. > > > > If the problem is that the user is not in the plugdev group, it will > > also happen with wicd, which makes this one of the worsts pieces of > > advice I have seen in this list. Which is a lot to say. > > Hardly > > > > > > networkmanager is a horribly broken piece of shit that per user reports > > > never seems to actually work for people. > > > > It works for me. In all kind of networks in several continents, with > > all kind of WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks, connecting through my > > cellphone and obviously with ethernet too. > > It seems to work for very simple network setups that don't change often. > > > > > Funny you said that Alan, when was the last time you heard about a > > problem with NM in the list? I count less than 20 mails *mentioning* > > NM in the list in 2013, and none of them are (IIRC) direct problems > > with NM. > > Most of us who have found out how horrible NM is have stopped using it > long ago so you don't see us posting with problems. > > > > > > You should not use software like that. > > > > You should do a little more research before saying something like that > > about a piece of software that just works most of the time. > > As long as we're telling people what to do I'll tell you to step out > of your ivory tower once in a while to get a broader picture of the > world. > > Todd
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