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On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: |
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> > Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. |
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> > What |
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> package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or |
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> command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are |
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> welcome. Thanks |
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> net-misc/networkmanager |
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> It comes with CLI tools but it's usually used with a frontend GUI. See |
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> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager#NetworkManager_GUI_bits_in_GTK |
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> For KDE I use kde-misc/plasma-nm. If you don't have a desktop it |
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> propably makes more sense to just use wpa_supplicant directly. |
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wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless |
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interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be |
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NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage. |
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Alternatively, you could just set up the two interfacs |
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in /etc/conf.d/net and switch between them by starting and |
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stopping /etc/init.d/net.{eth0,wlan0}. |
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It depends on how automatic you want it. |
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