Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:06:03 PM Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my stance on it :-) The main reason wicd development has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread hogren
Le Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:22:35 +0200, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org a écrit : On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:06:03 PM Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, October 07, 2014 09:50:04 AM hogren wrote: Le Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:22:35 +0200, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org a écrit : On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:06:03 PM Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread hogren
Le Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:01:57 +0200, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org a écrit : On Tuesday, October 07, 2014 09:50:04 AM hogren wrote: Le Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:22:35 +0200, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org a écrit : On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:06:03 PM Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 05:59:28 +0100, Mick wrote: The only feature that I can't get to work with my router is configuring a static address for the particular router MAC address, but using dhcpd for any other wired gateway I happen to connect to with my laptop. Do you have admin access on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my stance on it :-) The main reason wicd development has stopped is that the developer started using NetworkManager. -- Neil Bothwick ... if (pot.coffee == EMPTY) {

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my stance on it :-) The main reason wicd development has stopped is that the developer started using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-06 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my stance on it :-) The main reason wicd development has stopped is that the developer started using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-06 Thread Mick
On Monday 06 Oct 2014 23:34:43 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my stance on it :-) The main reason wicd development

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-10-04, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:24:51PM -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: If not, I'll either buy a better USB WiFi adapter or continue to google it. If you buy a new one, go with a PCI card. PCI is a much better bus than USB - more power so

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: wlan0:

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Did you try dhcpcd wlan0 to see if it gets an IP-address? That doesn't work (yet). An error message said that /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf was missing, so I copied this example from a man page: #cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday 03 October 2014 7:21:58 AM walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: I did some googling and enabled the appropriate kernel drivers, then rebooted and now the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/10/2014 19:24, walt wrote: On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote: On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh.

[gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-03 Thread walt
On 10/03/2014 11:28 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh. As for NetworkManager, just log in to your DE as root or run