Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/09 Mick said: Does your router know this? I'm not being funny, but I had run into a problem sometime in the past where a change in the dhcpcd version caused the router to not read the NIC MAC address correctly. That created a clash with the IP address lease. If I configure

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 23/11/09 Mick said: I just noticed that the latest dhcpcd-4.0.15 is playing up when it comes up. It seems that on 3 out of 5 it will time out when my machine boots up. It works fine if I bring it up manually thereafter, or run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart. The previous version worked

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-23 Thread Mick
2009/11/20 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Mick said: I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless configured and it does

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:38:22 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Mick said: I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless configured and it does not need /etc/init.d/*net scripts to

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:11:05 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 19 November 2009 01:39:23 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Space Cakex said: for me the best solution is to use networkmanager, delete net scripts and everything plus install nm-applet, so I have a real user friendly look and feel :) my only issue now is vpnc (see my other

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: conf.d/net is not buggy - it is suitable for static networking where the interfaces never change and neither does the address. It is simply inadequate for desktop use, *especially* roaming laptops. A side note in the docs to this effect would not be amiss.

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be an update if it has fallen out of favour? Should the bugs in

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 15:11:05 Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Space Cakex
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. Install and run wicd instead. I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so should there not be an update if it has fallen out of

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Mick said: I don't think that there bugs in conf.d/net just a matter of preference. Alan suggested that wicd is a simpler way to have your wireless configured and it does not need /etc/init.d/*net scripts to function. I am running wpa_supplicant: modules=( wpa_supplicant

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/11/09 Space Cakex said: for me the best solution is to use networkmanager, delete net scripts and everything plus install nm-applet, so I have a real user friendly look and feel :) my only issue now is vpnc (see my other mail) I'm not a fan of networkmanager. On my ubuntu laptop I

[gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works fine. But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting up the essid, but then says that it cannot configure it. That's the only

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:20:15 Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works fine. But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting