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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 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? 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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Since wicd deals with both wired and wireless, should I also get rid of |
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ifplugd? |
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Thanks, |
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Valmor |