On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: > > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. > > What > package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or > command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are > welcome. Thanks > > > > > > net-misc/networkmanager > > It comes with CLI tools but it's usually used with a frontend GUI. See > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager#NetworkManager_GUI_bits_in_GTK > > For KDE I use kde-misc/plasma-nm. If you don't have a desktop it > propably makes more sense to just use wpa_supplicant directly.
wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless
interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be
NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage.
Alternatively, you could just set up the two interfacs
in /etc/conf.d/net and switch between them by starting and
stopping /etc/init.d/net.{eth0,wlan0}.
It depends on how automatic you want it.
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