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On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to |
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> work properly under Gentoo? |
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NetworkManager, yes. I just started using it recently. |
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> When I attempt to use either of those |
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> utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay |
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> connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time. |
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> Instead, it continually disassociates and deauthenticates, only for |
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> nm/wicd to hop right back on. However, if I manually configure |
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> wpa_supplicant for a given SSID and start it via the init script |
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> directly, I don't have any such problems. |
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Have you stopped your net.wlan0 script? Also remove it from the default |
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runlevel, and set "rc_hotplug="!net.wlan0 !net.eth0" in /etc/rc.conf (if |
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you're using openrc). |
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> Additionally, I can't get either applet to actually save settings (like |
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> known networks, passwords, etc.) which means that I'm continually |
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> interrupted by a prompt for the wireless password. |
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Do you have seahorse (gnome)? Depending on how it's setup, you should |
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only have to provide the master password once for nm to access all your |
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keys. |
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> What I'm really looking for is a graphical utility that will let me |
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> connect to specific newly-detected wireless networks without having to |
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> edit the WPA configuration and restart it; NetworkManager and WICD seem |
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> to be the most popular. Any other suggestions would also be welcome. |
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never tried WICD. nm (and nm-applet) ftw! |
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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Mad, adj.: |
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Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence ... |
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" |
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