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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 15:58:52
Message-Id: 481C8E1D.8010700@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop by Daniel da Veiga
1 Daniel da Veiga ha scritto:
2 > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:49 PM, b.n. <brullonulla@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Daniel da Veiga ha scritto:
4 >>
5 >>> Nah, I guess its something related to my card (and driver) and
6 >> wpa_supplicant.
7 >> You told that wicd somehow works better. Seems more related to
8 >> NetworkManager, then...
9 >>
10 >
11 > You can say so, but WICD and NetworkManager are completely different
12 > programs, they both call wpa_supplicant, but in completely different
13 > ways, as far as I can see. NM tries to use DBUS to talk to supplicant,
14 > while WICD launches supplicant directly, by pointing it to a generated
15 > config file.
16 >
17 > But yes, I suppose NM is broken in the sense it can't talk to
18 > wpa_supplicant on my laptop.
19
20 I know almost nothing about dbus, but have you checked that dbus works
21 for other programs?
22
23 m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>