Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote:
> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage
What is networkmanager ? url ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Alexander Skwar]

José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote:
>> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage
> What is networkmanager ? url ?

Dunno what it is, but it seems to be <http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/downloadcontribute.html>.

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[gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Nick Smith]

I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage, i have checked
the gentoo-portage site, done numerous searched with emerge and cant
seem to locate it, there website says gentoo has it "Your favorite Linux
distribution probably already has packages for NetworkManager. Fedora
Core, Debian, and Gentoo, are supported out of the box. You can use your
distributions package management tools to download and install the
NetworkManager programs if it has been packaged for your distro."

anyone running this? what is it called in portage?

thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Christoph Eckert]

> What is networkmanager ? url ?

knetworkconf.sf.net?

Will be part of KDE 3.5.


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Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Holly Bostick]

Alexander Skwar schreef:
> José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb:
> 
>> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage
>> 
>> What is networkmanager ? url ?
> 
> 
> Dunno what it is, but it seems to be
> <http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/downloadcontribute.html>.
> 
> 
> Alexander Skwar

Looking at the site, it seems to be a GNOME package. Turns out I have it
available from an old sync with breakmygentoo (which I really have to
take out of my overlay list one of these days, but at least this time
it's useful):

gnome-extra/NetworkManager [2]
     Available versions:  *0.3.1 ~0.3.1.030505 ~0.3.1.050205
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/
     Description:         Network policy manager for the HAL-ized
freedesktop.org

Notwithstanding that bmg is not an official resource, nor a recommended
one, at least now you have the package info in terms of what category
it's in, and what the package would be called under Portage, if it was
in Portage, which it does not appear to be.

There is, however, an ebuild for 0.3.1 on b.g.o--

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396

which can 'legitimately' be put in one's overlay.

HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Nick Smith]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:

> There is, however, an ebuild for 0.3.1 on b.g.o--
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396
> 
> which can 'legitimately' be put in one's overlay.
> 
> HTH,
> Holly

well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that
integrates with gnome that allows you to switch network connections on
the fly? or just something that monitors wireless connections and allows
you to choose to connect to them? something that actually asked for the
WEP key when it hit an encrypted network would be good too, but i think
im pushing my luck. thats for the info thus far.

Nick

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Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:05 -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396
> > 

> well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that
> integrates with gnome that allows you to switch network connections on
> the fly? or just something that monitors wireless connections and allows
> you to choose to connect to them? something that actually asked for the
> WEP key when it hit an encrypted network would be good too, but i think
> im pushing my luck. thats for the info thus far.

Network Manager is a program that integrates between DBUS/HAL and the
system to create a sort of a 'connection Manager" for Linux. It's
largely gnome based and IIRC, it's hacked by Robert Love
http://www.rlove.org/ and should be a part of Project Utopia (The mantra
of which is "It Just Works")

In the gentoo world, we also have a Project Utopia, namely Project
Gentopia. Project Gentopia is the brainchild of Gentoo Doug Goldstein.
He's been hosting a portage overlay on his site
https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/svn/overlay in which there are
more than one gentoo dev working on the ebuilds.

You can do a sync with it through subversion. There are instructions on
the site.

I am a (heavy?) user of his portage tree which makes things "just works"
on my laptop. (though I have to admit that I can't make NetworkManager
work as yet, most likely it's me not wanting to break dhcpcd and emerge
dhcdbd (http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/dhcdbd - link broken for some
reason but the download is at
http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/dhcdbd/dhcdbd-1.6.tar.gz ) which is :

[quote]
DHCP D-BUS daemon (dhcdbd) controls dhclient sessions with D-BUS, stores
and presents DHCP options.
[/quote]

Each time I start NetworkManager, I noticed that it will disconnect all
my sessions and start it's own dhcpclient. I've not had time to test it
out fully.

Perhaps one day, I will feel up to it to write a whole article about
Project Utopia/Gentopia for the MyOSS Magazine
(http://mag.my-opensource.org)

ps : Yeah.. the last bit was a plug. Edition 5 is up if anyone's
interested. And BTW, we need contributors.


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