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From: "João Jerónimo" <joao.jeronimo.89@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager on uclibc Gentoo system x86
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:58:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BC77A5.6000702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <094add1e-882f-4200-b490-79655ed9b441@email.android.com>


Em 08/07/2014 21:39, J. Roeleveld escreveu:
> On 8 July 2014 18:49:19 CEST, "João Jerónimo" <joao.jeronimo.89@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I installed the uclibc stage3 tarball no a x86 machine (I chose uclibc
>> because the PC has only 256 MB of RAM). I'm currently trying to install
>> NetworkManager, but I ran into a problem, which is: NetworkManager
>> needs 'policykit' USE flag to be applyed to consolekit package. This
>> pulls-in policykit package as a dependency of consolekit, which in turn
>> doesn't compile because it calls some funcions that uclibc doesn't
>> implement.
>>
>> Can't I install networkmanager in uclibc systems, then?
> Didn't check the ebuilds, but with what you described. I don't think you can use NetworkManager with uclibc.
>
> Apart from that. With only 256MB memory. I would be reluctant to use tools with large dependencies.
Thanks.
But... That sucks...
Can you tell me if there is an alternative to NetworkManager?
Or else, can wpa_supplicant connect to networks that are not statically 
configured in config files?

JJ



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-08 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-08 16:49 [gentoo-user] Networkmanager on uclibc Gentoo system x86 João Jerónimo
2014-07-08 20:39 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-07-08 22:58   ` João Jerónimo [this message]
2014-07-09  0:01     ` Randy Westlund
2014-07-09  6:21     ` Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos
2014-07-09 10:06       ` Mick
2014-07-09  0:03 ` microcai
2014-07-09  6:16   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-07-21 16:40 ` [gentoo-user] " James

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