Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and NetworkManager

["András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu>]

On 15 July 2013 21:08, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15/07/2013 18:44, András Csányi wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I would like to get some help regarding networkmanager and KDE.
>>>
>>> I have installed the networkmanager package on my machine and I also
>>> have networkmanagement kde application installed. My problem is that
>>> as a user I'm not able to abb network connection using network manager
>>> in kde. There is no way to run this application as root and I'm not
>>> able to login as root into KDE.
>
> Is your user included in the plugdev group, as the networkmanager
> ebuild recommends?

No. It was not part of that group. The install was a part of a bigger
set of packages and I haven't read the output. It is my bad. on the
other hand, the tutorial why does not mention about anything?

I added the the user to that group and the wicd working well. I
dropped networkmanager as far as it was possible. It is part of the
unity environment.

>>> At the moment I don't have any network connection on that machine. If
>>> I want it then I have to remove networkmanager package and let the
>>> rc-process to handle the networks.
>>>
>>> Is there a place where that is described how possible to solve this
>>> issue? Is there a tutorial about networkmanager where the
>>> configuration is described or something like this? What right is
>>> needed or something? I have googled a few hours but I haven't found
>>> anything.
>
> Again, try adding your user to the plugdev group.
>
>>> I appreciate your help!
>>
>>
>> unmerge nm and everything associated with it.
>> Comment out all lines in /etc/conf.d/net
>>
>> emerge wicd with the USE flags of your choice.
>>
>> All your problems will instantly go away, stay away, and wicd will do
>> the right thing always for networking. I promise.
>
> If the problem is that the user is not in the plugdev group, it will
> also happen with wicd, which makes this one of the worsts pieces of
> advice I have seen in this list. Which is a lot to say.

Yes, it happened the same with wicd as well. After I added the user to
the plugdev group everything is working fine.

>> networkmanager is a horribly broken piece of shit that per user reports
>> never seems to actually work for people.
>
> It works for me. In all kind of networks in several continents, with
> all kind of WEP, WPA, and WPA2 networks, connecting through my
> cellphone and obviously with ethernet too.
>
> Funny you said that Alan, when was the last time you heard about a
> problem with NM in the list? I count less than 20 mails *mentioning*
> NM in the list in 2013, and none of them are (IIRC) direct problems
> with NM.
>
>> You should not use software like that.
>
> You should do a little more research before saying something like that
> about a piece of software that just works most of the time.

I understand Alan feelings. The strange is that Ubuntu use wicd. I
don't know whether by default or not.


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