From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:52:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257303157.3301.14.camel@platypus> (raw)
Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to
work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those
utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay
connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time.
Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for
nm/wicd to hop right back on. However, if I manually configure
wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script
directly, I don't have any such problems.
Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like
known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually
interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password.
What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me
connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to
edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem
to be the most popular. Any other suggestions would also be welcome.
--Mike
next reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 2:52 Mike Edenfield [this message]
2009-11-04 3:10 ` [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD Albert Hopkins
2009-11-04 4:16 ` Iain Buchanan
2009-11-04 20:08 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-11-05 1:07 ` Albert Hopkins
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