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 03E4A138CBD for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D7C8E099B; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC92E098A for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 42F5428ACB for ; Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:08 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces] Message-ID: <20150311111506.14db87cf@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3476120.3dExncvGH4@navi> References: <20150311051932.28eaa67098f3a97064353fcf@gmail.com> <3476120.3dExncvGH4@navi> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-75-g9971ef (GTK+ 2.24.27; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/j0zXtQnBPG4/kT_E4.Wzp/F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: b17109ab-aeca-4eeb-bc76-9048b7e10aa0 X-Archives-Hash: 4c00d8104161a011025dd70f27d04619 --Sig_/j0zXtQnBPG4/kT_E4.Wzp/F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =20 > package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or=20 > command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are > welcome. Thanks > >=20 > > =20 >=20 > net-misc/networkmanager >=20 > It comes with CLI tools but it's usually used with a frontend GUI. See=20 > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager#NetworkManager_GUI_bits_in_GTK >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Therapy is expensive, popping bubble wrap is cheap! You choose. --Sig_/j0zXtQnBPG4/kT_E4.Wzp/F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlUAI7oACgkQum4al0N1GQOfagCdHyQj1KOOu4ETYWeC91m8lFM1 m9MAnR/+WBD5gZm5Nbf6uoZ6Oq8TyQRI =nFa1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/j0zXtQnBPG4/kT_E4.Wzp/F--