From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:46:38 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257308198.8154.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257303157.3301.14.camel@platypus>
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to
> work properly under Gentoo?
NetworkManager, yes. I just started using it recently.
> 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.
Have you stopped your net.wlan0 script? Also remove it from the default
runlevel, and set "rc_hotplug="!net.wlan0 !net.eth0" in /etc/rc.conf (if
you're using openrc).
> 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.
Do you have seahorse (gnome)? Depending on how it's setup, you should
only have to provide the master password once for nm to access all your
keys.
> 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.
never tried WICD. nm (and nm-applet) ftw!
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
Mad, adj.:
Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence ...
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 2:52 [gentoo-user] NetworkManager and/or WICD Mike Edenfield
2009-11-04 3:10 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-11-04 4:16 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2009-11-04 20:08 ` Mike Edenfield
2009-11-05 1:07 ` Albert Hopkins
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