On 15 July 2013 21:08, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 15/07/2013 18:44, András Csányi wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I would like to get some help regarding networkmanager and KDE. >>> >>> I have installed the networkmanager package on my machine and I also >>> have networkmanagement kde application installed. My problem is that >>> as a user I'm not able to abb network connection using network manager >>> in kde. There is no way to run this application as root and I'm not >>> able to login as root into KDE. > > Is your user included in the plugdev group, as the networkmanager > ebuild recommends?
No. It was not part of that group. The install was a part of a bigger set of packages and I haven't read the output. It is my bad. on the other hand, the tutorial why does not mention about anything? I added the the user to that group and the wicd working well. I dropped networkmanager as far as it was possible. It is part of the unity environment. >>> At the moment I don't have any network connection on that machine. If >>> I want it then I have to remove networkmanager package and let the >>> rc-process to handle the networks. >>> >>> Is there a place where that is described how possible to solve this >>> issue? Is there a tutorial about networkmanager where the >>> configuration is described or something like this? What right is >>> needed or something? I have googled a few hours but I haven't found >>> anything. > > Again, try adding your user to the plugdev group. > >>> I appreciate your help! >> >> >> unmerge nm and everything associated with it. >> Comment out all lines in /etc/conf.d/net >> >> emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice. >> >> All your problems will instantly go away, stay away, and wicd will do >> the right thing always for networking. I promise. > > If the problem is that the user is not in the plugdev group, it will > also happen with wicd, which makes this one of the worsts pieces of > advice I have seen in this list. Which is a lot to say. Yes, it happened the same with wicd as well. After I added the user to the plugdev group everything is working fine. >> networkmanager is a horribly broken piece of shit that per user reports >> never seems to actually work for people. > > It works for me. In all kind of networks in several continents, with > all kind of WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks, connecting through my > cellphone and obviously with ethernet too. > > Funny you said that Alan, when was the last time you heard about a > problem with NM in the list? I count less than 20 mails *mentioning* > NM in the list in 2013, and none of them are (IIRC) direct problems > with NM. > >> You should not use software like that. > > You should do a little more research before saying something like that > about a piece of software that just works most of the time. I understand Alan feelings. The strange is that Ubuntu use wicd. I don't know whether by default or not. -- -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- ""Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry!" - Cromwell
