From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8844138CBD for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05D41E09AD; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com (mail-lb0-f174.google.com [209.85.217.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8368AE09A4 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbiw7 with SMTP id w7so8160823lbi.6 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:40:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=v43zA4pEjCAHAeC8JmU1q3s65vh7yADAuC/Sva7TQ78=; b=lbJsaRLPglCAEOuTYeg/VaHVTZMHcxVIyd6k+Qvlk3VXNU6fkqRr3M+4EYJLitpyLv fjZJcuePLYp9N7ILw1yPQ1k6e4Dit28jmhbbfgf0DgkRh73rZbV5gcMGTVxIAsWI1o46 FvyRQ5UNqrZi0acWbaWgHNBz/7Gf4uR6riUSq9Sw/0j4uZlM4QbqJr9/CG3PBZf98LBN qZ4iKO31wn/z82ehdKXQFcI9V0hkNUa2Gl8O+paPunVwxA6dIsLA6YnYzwxcYZjwJZjH E22te7zTZTocrkl3/Yt74HF5nK2K3H0rXahcmEsabkMwVAg67Y8MxnsGtzuduIV+VCCl /fmw== X-Received: by 10.152.191.135 with SMTP id gy7mr33550021lac.91.1426074010138; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digger ([178.70.71.200]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h3sm662010lam.49.2015.03.11.04.40.08 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:40:06 -0400 From: German To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces] Message-Id: <20150311074006.4aee398987be0d2d0cec3c5d@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150311111506.14db87cf@digimed.co.uk> References: <20150311051932.28eaa67098f3a97064353fcf@gmail.com> <3476120.3dExncvGH4@navi> <20150311111506.14db87cf@digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ddb9d4d8-5af2-48f8-839a-37fd38dd42fc X-Archives-Hash: f44298288f09fa3fb312ccd23885c4b8 On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: > > > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. > > > What > > package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or > > command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are > > welcome. Thanks > > > > > > > > > > net-misc/networkmanager > > > > It comes with CLI tools but it's usually used with a frontend GUI. See > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager#NetworkManager_GUI_bits_in_GTK > > > > For KDE I use kde-misc/plasma-nm. If you don't have a desktop it > > propably makes more sense to just use wpa_supplicant directly. > > wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless > interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be > NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage. > > Alternatively, you could just set up the two interfacs > in /etc/conf.d/net and switch between them by starting and > stopping /etc/init.d/net.{eth0,wlan0}. > > It depends on how automatic you want it. Ok, I tried to emerge networkmanger and it tries to pull a bunch of dependencies which I do not need, e.g. x11-proto, x11-libs. I already set use flag to -X because for now I will be happy with console mode, but it still tries to pull them. How do I tell portage not emerge unneeded dependencies? Thanks > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose. -- German