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Apparently, though unproven, at 23:34 on Sunday 12 December 2010, Valmor de |
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Almeida did opine thusly: |
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> On 12/12/2010 03:54 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:51 on Sunday 12 December 2010, Valmor |
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> > de |
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> > Almeida did opine thusly: |
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> >> Hello, |
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> >> I would like to have net.wlan0 started only when the wireless card is |
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> >> switched on. I am using ifplugd for starting net.eth0 when an ethernet |
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> >> cable is plugged in. Is there a similar utility for net.wlan0? Ideally |
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> >> so that it is configurable in conjunction with ifplugd. |
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> > Chuck all that net.* bullshit out the window and use wicd instead. |
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> Okay I am new to this wireless stuff. If I do |
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> -> emerge -vp wicd |
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> I get |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild N ] net-wireless/wireless-tools-29 USE="nls -multicall" 0 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 USE="-doc -examples |
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> -test" 483 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] dev-python/urwid-0.9.9.1 USE="-examples" 233 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] x11-misc/ktsuss-1.4 273 kB |
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> [ebuild N ] net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 USE="X gtk ncurses nls pm-utils |
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> (-ioctl) -libnotify" 402 kB |
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> Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 1,390 kB |
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> which will install wireless-tools. This does not mean I need to use it |
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> to configure my wireless net right? |
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You are going to take the entirety of net.* except net.lo as installed by |
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baselayout/openrc/whatever and get rid of it. That stuff never worked right |
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for anything except servers with fixed IPs |
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> I am asking this because I am using |
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> wpa_supplicant and in the /etc/conf.d/net config file, I can only use |
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> one or the other. |
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Discard /etc/conf.d/net |
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That's part of the thing you are getting rid of |
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> Since wicd deals with both wired and wireless, should I also get rid of |
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> ifplugd? |
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Yes. |
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Just following the wicd docs and it will all work just fine |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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