Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Jan Seeger
At Tue, 6 May 2008 12:42:15 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: snip, snip 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:09 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread deface
Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:12 PM, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
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: Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-03 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... You

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many people

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out communicating with the AP. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:22 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved yet, so I won't bet on it. I'm not with my EEE right now, so, as soon

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: I'll try removing the config for the whole thing and see how it works, but NetworkManager has problems launching wpa_supplicant (or controlling it at least) using DBUS, and that has not been solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread b.n.
Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel da Veiga ha scritto: Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and wpa_supplicant. You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to NetworkManager, then... You can say so, but WICD and