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. > > > > I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some > > stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using > > ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for > > the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, > > allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but > > once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It > > seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix > > would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in > > portage anymore, so I quit. > > > > Next I tried some gtk stuff, scripting stuff, gosh, so many. > > > > End up with WICD, wich for the most part works fine. I didn't have the > > time to check why the heck it tries to connect to "None" more often > > then it tries with the SSID I"m telling it to (maybe some > > configuration file lost in the way), but anyway, change driver from > > "ndiswrapper" or "wext" and it eventually works. > > > > What are you guys using? I"m accepting suggestions! > > > > > > > I haven't read the rest of the replies, but have you tried going UP, and > not DOWN? meaning a CVS version of NM? This is a beautiful application, > which has filled many much needed holes in the world of linux and wireless. > NM is under rapid development and many changes are commited. (if you've gone > up, sorry .. like i said; haven't read the rest of the replies on this one.) > >
I have run both stable and testing versions on portage. I even tried compiling from source, and that failed, can't recall the reason. I'm still looking for a stable network manager app. I'm currently switching from Gnome to XFCE, so I'm gonna try some other apps, like pynetworkmanager... -- Daniel da Veiga -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
