Re: D-Bus permissions on Debian-based systems

2008-05-23 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: I spent half of yesterday banging my head on a desk trying to get the D-Bus permissions correct for Ubuntu 8.04. Whew. This makes my day, 'cause I had the same issues (but knowing nothing about D-Bus before I'd loaded this distro a couple of weeks ago)

Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-17 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Eric S. Johansson wrote: ... but ends up with me trying networkmanager 0.7. must say that with backported modules, wifi works great again. I am most grateful. What did you do?! I've been unable to get it to work from the SVN. -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup Sr.

Any success stories with latest SVNs on Ubuntu 8.04?

2008-05-12 Thread Kenneth Crudup
... anyone? I've been pulling SVN regularly, applied all the Ubuntu-specific patches or changes I could find, and yet I can't get this thing to let me select what wired or wireless network I want via nm-applet. All I get are grayed-out entries for Wired and Wireless Networks, nm-applet

Re: Error when building from svn

2008-05-12 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu might sync the Debian dbus-glib 0.74-4 version from Debian: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dbus-glib/current/changelog On Thu, 8 May 2008, Darren Albers wrote: Good catch, I was going to build

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-06 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: To edit the connection files directly, use the values documented here: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification Question: there's an Edit Connections dialog available in nm-applet; is this the same thing? There seems to be some

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-06 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerConfigurationSpecification I'm still not quite sure how these end up in text files, what the filenames should be, nor what format. Can someone send me a tar file of their /etc/NetworkManager/system_config/ directory,

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-05 Thread Kenneth Crudup
I hate to keep asking silly questions, but which/what distro config tools won't I able to integrate with ...? On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: ... and on Ubuntu it would be whatever config tool gets run when you do System - Administration - Networking or something like that. If

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-04 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: Ubuntu/Debian doesn't have a native plugin yet, but you can use the KeyFile plugin if you like. Thanks. (It's becoming obvious I couldn't have just scraped up an Ubuntu NM 0.7 up on my own w/o a lot of help.) My next stop was to grab some of the rogue

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-02 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote: If your distro has a system settings plugin How does one determine this? (FWIW, I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.) -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Los Angeles O: 3630 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #138, L.A., CA 90034-6809

Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

2008-05-02 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: If you're wondering how [the system settings plugin] gets launched: $ less /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings.service i.e. it's automatically launched by DBus when NM needs it. Thank you very much

Documentation of all the various NM pieces and how they fit?

2008-05-01 Thread Kenneth Crudup
Is there a block diagram or the like out there? I'm sure by now that my issues with not being able to manage any network connections are due to some piece being missing, but I can't really tell what. -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Los Angeles O: