On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:59 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu>wrote:
> On 15 July 2013 21:08, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 15/07/2013 18:44, András Csányi wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I would like to get some help regarding networkmanager and KDE. > >>> > >>> I have installed the networkmanager package on my machine and I also > >>> have networkmanagement kde application installed. My problem is that > >>> as a user I'm not able to abb network connection using network manager > >>> in kde. There is no way to run this application as root and I'm not > >>> able to login as root into KDE. > > > > Is your user included in the plugdev group, as the networkmanager > > ebuild recommends? > > No. It was not part of that group. The install was a part of a bigger > set of packages and I haven't read the output. It is my bad. on the > other hand, the tutorial why does not mention about anything? > The ebuild says it: src_prepare() { DOC_CONTENTS="To modify system network connections without needing to enter the root password, add your user account to the 'plugdev' group." When you install it, a message appears with that text. > I added the the user to that group and the wicd working well. I > dropped networkmanager as far as it was possible. It is part of the > unity environment. Actually is part of GNOME, like pretty much everything behind the curtains in Unity. > >>> At the moment I don't have any network connection on that machine. If > >>> I want it then I have to remove networkmanager package and let the > >>> rc-process to handle the networks. > >>> > >>> Is there a place where that is described how possible to solve this > >>> issue? Is there a tutorial about networkmanager where the > >>> configuration is described or something like this? What right is > >>> needed or something? I have googled a few hours but I haven't found > >>> anything. > > > > Again, try adding your user to the plugdev group. > > > >>> I appreciate your help! > >> > >> > >> 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. > > Yes, it happened the same with wicd as well. After I added the user to > the plugdev group everything is working fine. Thought so. > >> 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. > > > > 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. > > > >> 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. > > I understand Alan feelings. The strange is that Ubuntu use wicd. I > don't know whether by default or not. I didn't knew Unity used wicd. Glad to hear it worked. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México