Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread roconnor
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Sergey Mironov wrote: I have successfully set up wpa2 wireless network using wicd, but it was not that easy. The problem is that dhclient doesn't ignore wlan0 interface by default and wicd doesn't take this fact into account correctly. With just   networking = {    

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread Alexander Foremny
It is true that you have to reconfigure your system every time you add a *new* wireless network you want to connect to, specifically you have to reconfigure every time you change /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and want to make the changes active. However, once configured wpa_supplicant will take care of

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread roconnor
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Alexander Foremny wrote: It is true that you have to reconfigure your system every time you add a *new* wireless network you want to connect to, specifically you have to reconfigure every time you change /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and want to make the changes active.

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Alexander Foremny wrote: It is true that you have to reconfigure your system every time you add a *new* wireless network you want to connect to, specifically you have to reconfigure every time you change /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and want to

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread roconnor
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: https://nixos.org/wiki/Wireless_networking Why isn't wpa_supplicant.conf managed by NixOS? Because it contains passwords. Ah, I see. ;_; -- Russell O'Connor http://r6.ca/ ``All talk about `theft,''' the

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-05 Thread Petr Rockai
Hi, rocon...@theorem.ca writes: Why isn't wpa_supplicant.conf managed by NixOS? Because it contains passwords. Ah, I see. For the record, I keep a /etc/nixos/wpa-supplicant.nix which I require from configuration.nix and that says environment.etc = [ { source = pkgs.writeText

Re: [Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

2012-01-03 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:18:27 +0400, Sergey Mironov ier...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/2 Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name Yes, one should disable wpa_supplicant (networking.enableWLAN if I rememver correctly) also - wicd runs it by itself when needed. On the other hand wpa_supplicant itself