Hi,

I'm not sure I should create bugs for these items so I'm posting here
first to get a feeling on what can we do. I was testing yesterday's
KDE x86 daily live in my laptop (where I also have my regular Sabayon
installed) and found these wifi-related issues:

- Broadcom driver in use is wl by default, and I used to have an issue
with it not being able to reauthenticate automatically when my laptop
was on battery. I didn't really bother much trying to work around that
so I switched to b43 and it's been working good since then. I do think
it's a large topic to discuss so I'm sure nothing like driver switch
will happen before S7, am I right?

- KNetworkManager (actually called Plasma NM) does not get along well
with the nm-system-settings.conf file located at /etc/NetworkManager/.
When the contents of that file include the ifnet plugin, all
connections are created as System Connections, which is not a major
issue (you'd still be able to browse and do all your stuff) but may be
annoying. I eventually dropped that file from my Sabayon installation,
and now from the LiveCD I edited the contents of the file to disable
the ifnet plugin and it works. I don't know what can be done to solve
this issue: seems like a KDE-specific bug and I'm not able to get in
touch with the maintainer at the moment. Since it's also not a major
issue, I think we could even let it be and hope no one notices the
glitch.

That's about all I have right now. I have to do some mor tests and
then go on and test the AMD64 daily in my PC and I'll let you know if
there's anything else.

David E. Narváez


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