On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:46 +0800, > > William Kenworthy wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:42 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snipped the frustration> > > > been there, done that ... and gave up. > > > > Write your own scripts and shortcut the frustration. > > > > Keep a directory with a subdirectory for each site. Have all config > > files needed properly configured and stored there. Lastly, a simple > > script just copies in the required files over the top of the last lot > > and restarts the services. I have a desktop icon and a GUI (using > > gtkdialog) so I can easily select the correct site. > > > > Ive tried a few like network manager, and also tried to get gentoo's > > networking to do it semi-automaticly to help, but all I ended up with > > was a frustratingly fragile mess. > > I have a laptop too, and I always found that the gentoo networking > scripts where fully sufficient for keeeping me on-line. Okay, the > wireless is a bit flaky, but only when connecting. Note: I do not use > network manager. > > What exactly are your problems? >
Gentoo networking configuration is OK. It works for the most part, but you just need something were you can quickly type a password for a protected WPA network and it connects. Yes, you CAN edit the files by hand and provide the information, but that just makes your net configuration file a mess. I ended up with a pretty mess of over a dozen networks, most of them I used only once. I'm all for the console and editing configuration files, but a laptop or notebook is meant to be a fast tool to be connected everywhere, isnt it? Right now I'm switching to XFCE and I'll try more stuff, like pynetworkmanager... -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
