Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: If you want an easy way of configuring wirless without GUI use wicd and the wicd curses client(enabled via USE flag), NetworkManager is simpler to use with a GUI, the CLI client is not so easy to use, but if you want to,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:27 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Did you hear about CLI wi-fi tool iw? I am testing it right now, but seem cannot figure out how to use it iw is OK to set up an unencrypted or wep connection but you need wpa_supplicant for a wpa connection; and you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but setting up NM without a gui is simple. This is my home wifi setup: # cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky [connection] id=thsky

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German gentger...@gmail.com: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 12:35 GMT-06:00 Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com: search info(man, google) about nmcli. also nmtui, it seems easier to use, I hadn't looked at the list of NetworkManager tools in a while, but still the wicd cli interface is easier from what I remember.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:26 -0600 Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German gentger...@gmail.com: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
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 -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found emerge eix, then run eix-update as

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:52:02 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Klos
Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:12:04 +0100 Paul Klos gen...@klos2day.nl wrote: Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. -- Neil Bothwick Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but setting up NM without a gui is simple. This is my home wifi setup: # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:16:04 -0400, German wrote: emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. Ok, done that. Indeed there are anything related to x11-lib, but when I do emerge --ask net-misc/networkmanager I see x11-proto and x11-libs to be emerged. Use variable is set to -X. Anyone can