Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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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.


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Neil Bothwick

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