Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-10-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:13:41 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work nicely with third party tools without a lot of work. Nor should it - you either let baselayout manage the networking interfaces or another program. Letting two systems

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
Hello all, Getting very frustrated here. Trying to put the finishing touches on a new laptop install. I have verified using the CLI that both wired and wireless networking works fine when I configure manually. As with most laptops, I would imagine, I will be switching locations often, and

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work nicely with third party tools without a lot of work. My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general ones such as wifi hotspot, and basic wired dhcp) as I came across them and copy the resulting config

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
Hey Bill, On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Gentoo networking is a bit on the wild side - it doesnt seem to work nicely with third party tools without a lot of work. My fix was to manually configure each location (and a couple of general ones such as

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Darren Kirby bulli...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I am wondering if I should just uninstall KNetworkManager, and try nm-applet? Will that even work on a KDE desktop? Will it require installing boatloads of gnome crap I don't want? Should I chuck the whole works and

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
No I am saying create a unique /etc/conf./net, hosts file, bind files, firewall files (shorewall in my case), /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and anything else that has a unique setup per site and put them together in another directory. I have tried putting everything in the net file in

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Darren Kirby bulli...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I am wondering if I should just uninstall KNetworkManager, and try nm-applet? Will that even work on a KDE desktop? Will it require

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Dump NetworkManager. Use wicd. All these issues just GoAway(tm) with wicd Hello all, Getting very frustrated here. Trying to put the finishing touches on a new laptop install. I have verified using the CLI that both wired and wireless networking works fine when I configure manually. As with

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager OK? kNetworkManager broken? Wireless setup very confusing...

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Dump NetworkManager. Use wicd. All these issues just GoAway(tm) with wicd Thanks Alan, I've just realized that. Wish I could get the last 10 hours back though :) D -- -- Support the mob or mysteriously