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

[German <gentgerman@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:26 -0600
Jc García <jyo.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German <gentgerman@gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 +0000
> > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote:
> >>
> >> > > > eix-e: command not found. What to do?
> >> > >
> >> > > Insert a space between "eix" and "-e".
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Same result - command not found
> >>
> >> emerge eix, then run eix-update as root.
> >
> > Ok, done that. Indeed there are anything related to x11-lib, but when I do emerge --ask net-misc/networkmanager I see x11-proto and x11-libs to be emerged. Use variable is set to "-X". Anyone can shed a light on this? How can I emerge networkmanager without X dependencies? Thanks so much
> 
> If you want an easy way of configuring wirless without GUI use wicd
> and the wicd curses client(enabled via USE flag), NetworkManager is
> simpler to use with a GUI, the CLI client is not so easy to use, but
> if you want to, make sure none of the GUI related use flags are set
> e.g. gtk qt X emerge it, and then read and search info(man, google)
> about nmcli.

Did you hear about CLI wi-fi tool iw? I am testing it right now, but seem cannot figure out how to use it
> 


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