On Monday 26 Sep 2011 23:08:04 Mark Knecht wrote:
My experience so far:
1) As discussed earlier, needing to mess with routes when changing
which network I'm using. Sad when both options actually point to the
same address.
If you use ifplugd the eth0 will be activated auto-magically once a
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what
it is, how it links into everything else on the system.
For a user type the idea of dumping init scripts in favor of
something else is a _really_ foreign idea to
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:55 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alan,
OK, so wicd really does seem to do the job. It was only about 10
minutes to get it working. Thanks to you and others for suggesting I
look at it.
Basically, I've removed net.eth0 and net.wlan0 from
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:55 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alan,
OK, so wicd really does seem to do the job. It was only about 10
minutes to get it working. Thanks to you and others for
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:08:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The only thing I've noticed is that ntp-client doesn't run when
booting. ntpd does run immediately after ntp-client fails. I'm not
sure if that's caused by some delay in the wired network coming up
using wicd or something else
On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 12:19:06 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:43:13 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Reading the wicd homepage it looks like it
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Obviously wicd seems to be more user friendly than fiddling around with init.d
scripts and permutations, but in my head it's just a front end to such scripts
and wpa_supplicant . . . Have I got this wrong?
It is a
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
effect), has been the right way of configuring wifi for the average
user for
Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up
equally while home and
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.comwrote:
Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
realistic
On 26 September 2011 15:12, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com wrote:
Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I
also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to
connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a
realistic
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com
Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
(... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless networks!
This is exactly the problem.
I'm working on rewriting the Handbook's page on setting up wifi, but
I'm
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:03:10 James Broadhead wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com
Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
(... )I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless
networks!
This is exactly the problem.
I'm working on
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:03:10 James Broadhead wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.com
Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google
(... )I didn't even know there was a better way of
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
[-- snip --]
Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not a
power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta say I
don't like that way this is all working on my system so far. TO BE
CLEAR,
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
[-- snip --]
Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but certainly not
a power user - I don't write scripts or program at all - I gotta
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
[-- snip --]
Speaking as someone experienced in running Gentoo but
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:08:05 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011 5:11 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
Getting a manager to write your wpa_supplicant.conf for you (in
effect), has been the
On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like
wicd.
Getting a manager to write
On Sep 27, 2011 9:57 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Sep 27, 2011 9:51 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Or skip the net config/init scripts
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't seriously considered wicd because I don't understand what
it is, how it links into everything else on the system.
At its most basic, it lists your network interfaces and you can
configure or connect with DHCP,
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 07:08:05AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Not to belittle non-power users, most everything can be done by putting
some more intelligence into the init.d scripts.
Of course, this should be implemented by Gentoo itself. I'll spelunk in
the relevant scripts and
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:47:18 -0400
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 September 2011 03:19, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something
like wicd.
Getting a
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me it sees
all sorts of ESSIDs but so far I cannot figure out how to give it the
password correctly. I've been trying to follow
Am 25.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Mark Knecht:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me it sees
all sorts of ESSIDs but so far I cannot figure out how to give it the
On Sunday 25 Sep 2011 21:59:05 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 25.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Mark Knecht:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me it sees
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
Do you mean WPA2 or WEP? AFAIK there's no such thing as WEP2.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
Am 25.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Mark Knecht:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
If got the modules installed and the hardware telling me it
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
Do you mean WPA2 or WEP? AFAIK
On Sep 26, 2011 6:37 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net
wrote:
Am 25.09.2011 22:38, schrieb Mark Knecht:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home
ifplugd or netplug.
This is the better option IMO.
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
ifplugd or netplug.
This is the better option IMO.
Or skip the net config/init scripts stuff and just use something like wicd.
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