From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NB6eG-0000yb-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73FB0E05DB; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34526E05DB for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so562761eyh.40 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=FC//x60EYtNp0PfAAqL2e9fon4xAA4ZUoza5wo209lw=; b=UYTnEUwvwb1XmbgKmGvn1q83MTRteJY58rcdQMVbpSfS+RH7sKIp7HCar4oSI6Qlku S5amXCJpVbuhg8mk/mkrgrbNiZid+NjYlhGRU1SB73QYfVe/Ysq6CsOsUMjJw19OonHx 0cx/aJ8EschL7ZnrampPuspOviHPihfdLkgrw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=IuR4aUbRbHyG2nqC4kiifmDfy912lqchrA4VsIdgjnlzOTlTPgnj3jn35tfBZon+pv ufEuTiWv+SGkMqztVwBfAwcd8wNogMYQ53yYdd4pHblXGNnhIV4Hj9sekaAH4gWekDxv 49zxwzk8rZ64zoA0I226Z9HZ9nMHBU6ANaFxQ= Received: by 10.213.100.168 with SMTP id y40mr1192599ebn.77.1258635717695; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm210546ewy.15.2009.11.19.05.01.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:01:55 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen8; KDE/4.3.75; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091117232014.GA6951@anton.digitaltorque.ca> <200911180910.33949.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091118151104.GP95848@kanga.digitaltorque.ca> In-Reply-To: <20091118151104.GP95848@kanga.digitaltorque.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911191500.53856.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 421f0c84-1ace-47de-af1d-366222cb9ce8 X-Archives-Hash: ade2f28b7f8ead9d924aa1003d18cb95 On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:11:05 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said: > > Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. > > > > Install and run wicd instead. > > I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so > should there not be an update if it has fallen out of favour? Should the > bugs in conf.d/net not be fixed? conf.d/net is not buggy - it is suitable for static networking where the interfaces never change and neither does the address. It is simply inadequate for desktop use, *especially* roaming laptops. A side note in the docs to this effect would not be amiss. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com