Thanks for the feedback! Appreciated! On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:43 PM, David Narvaez <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > > > -- Kelly Schwartz ~wolfden~
